Word: scorched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...session of Congress would be short and asserted, with equal vehemence, that it would be long. Peering into the New Year they could see through the darkness as far as an election-it will be a lively one, said the New York Times, "in which hard words will scorch the air and the ether, but it will be an election, not a revolution." And although many an editorial writer looked searchingly back on the '30s, no Washington correspondent pointed out that for President Roosevelt it was a historic midnight that marked the end, not of a year...