Word: shading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club's 4,850 members range from labor leaders to corporation executives. For a generation they have been soapboxed by speakers of every political shade, from Communist Earl Browder to Britain's conservative Lord Halifax. The club has heard every U.S. president since William McKinley, missing only Warren G. Harding (he died the day before he was to address it). Before it in 1932, Presidential Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made the famed speech which first blueprinted the New Deal...
...More than half say that neighbors can see into their bedrooms, and most of them mind it. But 8% do not pull the shade down when dressing with the lights on. Only 15% close the bedroom door at night...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...
...think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin a wisp of shade on the backbone of a mountain that is steamin in the swelterin heat like a pan of bread in an oven. ... I hurried up to the grave to look down in it. It wasn't as deep as I was tall. . . . On another grave was a tattered flag, that the wind had faded...
...Cold. China's intellectuals today are a shabby, undernourished, despondent group who feel the cold. White-collar workers in Government offices and banks are a shade, better off: they are allowed to buy some of their necessities at low fixed prices. Labor is scarce enough to keep day wages just a notch behind the cost of living. Merchants, if they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect...