Word: slough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 1,268 delegates and a couple of thousand party workers swarmed into the bleak Coliseum in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park, the party had still to slough the ill-fitting skin worn during six years of John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite...
...thrown all his energy and talent into an ambitious novel. As one of the Broadway characters of a Shaw story might say, this is his "big pitch." The sad news is that he has failed; his novel is depressing evidence of how hard it is for a writer to slough off youthful habits...
...economic expert in China saw the program as a bold, brave effort to pull the nation out of its desperate economic slough. But the issue of new currency would have to be backed by honest and efficient execution of the rest of the government's promised fiscal reform, which would hit many of China's privileged where it hurt...
...educational division of the United Nations a plan for International Education which, while it seems pale stuff beside the big dynamic questions of Greek aid and starvation in Europe, is interesting as one of the small, unsensational steps necessary in the long haul out of the world's postwar slough. The series of international institutes for teachers, researchers and young people that the plan envisages may very possibly be a foreshadowing of the form that will be assumed by education in the future...
...British spirit could slough into disastrous quiescence and defeatism. Britain cannot work out of its sore trouble unless the people give up much of the little they now have, but they have great capacity to do without...