Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growl and Grumbles. Churchill's growl still set the keynote of his people's temper. He still rode high in their affections as war leader, but there was also a grumble, which CBS Broadcaster Edward (christened Egbert) Murrow defined as coming from caste-conscious Britons who were beginning to realize that "all are equal under the bomb...
...with a red, chicken-hawk beak and whiskery white eyebrows bobbed off the train in Washington's Union Station one day last week. He paused, silent while photographers snapped his familiar beady-eyed, scowling squint, then stepped briskly into a long black limousine, and rode off towards the Capitol...
...rode through quiet, cynical streets to the Western Electric plant, said to 5,000 workers: "He [Harry Hopkins] said the people were 'too damn dumb' to understand the reason why the New Deal can get away with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
...week, while screaming bombs were falling on London, C. Martin Wilbur, curator of Chinese archeology & ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, called attention to his exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows. They were used by Manchu bodyguards to frighten people off the streets when the emperor rode by. The large, blunt whistle head kept them from being dangerous...
...tongue in Japan rolled this Konoyism with great relish, though no one knew precisely what it meant. It was variously used as a sales slogan, an expletive, a philosophic concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation - the one on which Prince Konoye rode to the Premiership in July - was as a promise of a one-party political system, vaguely like that of Germany or Italy. Last week, speaking before the Preparatory Com mittee for the New National Structure, Prince Konoye dispelled that illusion and made one thing very clear: he intends to bring...