Word: roster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude of mind, goes back at least to Periclean Athens. Liberalism, as a political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences a common determination...
...Boston roster is bulging with big names fresh out of khaki, and the names of Woodrow ("Porky") Dumart, Milt Schmidt and Bobby Bauer lead all the rest. Before they joined the R.C.A.F. three years ago, this trio skated circles around the best defensemen in the league, led the Bruins to three championships in three years. A little rusty, the "Kitchener Kids" (they grew up in Kitchener, Ont.) have not really cut loose so far. Partly responsible is Manager Art Ross, who boasts that he has never had a man go stale on him in 20 years, and now insists...
...transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...
Although the team expects to specialize in the downhill and slalom events, jumpers and cross-country men are needed to round out the roster. The first real test will come with the Lake Placid Carnival in the latter part of December...
What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...