Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more important, of course, were those 4,000,000 assistants who were the hope and sinew of General Smigly-Rydz's defense: the standing army of 18,000 officers, 37,000 noncoms, 211,000 privates, 27,000 frontier defense corps (Soviet border), 29,000 State police (on a military basis); the 1,500,000 trained reserves, some of whom are poorly equipped; the 2,000,000 untrained, undernourished conscripts; the 6,000 sailors; the 3,950,000 horses; the inadequate 28,000 motor vehicles; the 10,000 pilots, machine gunners, mechanics of the air force...
...cartoon by Jerry Doyle in the Philadelphia Record and New York Post twitting Senator Tydings for claiming he embraced the ''bone & sinew" of the New Deal...
...counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between the people and the organization, and he is the only connecting link-the only...
...political platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...
...operation that the Press gives a Senate investigation is usually even greater than it receives. In the committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal...