Word: rosier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...year's first six months. The National City Bank of New York totted up earnings of 350 companies, found that they were up 11%. But the notable fact was that second-quarter earnings this year were but slightly better than first quarter. If the overall picture was still rosier than last year, it was due mainly to one rampaging industry...
...expressed misgivings about the nation's mood. The people, he said, are complacent because they get only the rosier side of war. (Example: pictures from Sicily, where the Allies suffered 25,000 casualties, have been mostly fluff-Sicilians tossing posies at U.S. troops, throwing fruit at Mussolini posters.) Said Elmer Davis to the President, in effect: either give OWI a new deal, or kill it; it is not much good...
...past year, before it was adjudged "entirely respectable," the British Communist Party upped its membership from 53,000 to over 62,000. Now, breathing "the highest patriotism" and recruiting among Britons who admire the strength of Soviet Russia, British Communists expect the future to be rosier...
...East Coast Oil outlook is very much rosier-statistically. But oil-parched Easterners can't quite make plans for joy rides...