Word: sprouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertising campaigns ever undertaken will be launched by hundreds of advertisers in all fields: a new drive, coordinated by the Advertising Council, for war bond sales. Its probable goal: conversion of 15% of all pay checks into war bonds. Moreover, within the next few weeks newspapers and magazines will sprout scores of ads aimed straight at the hearts of the nation's newest wartime problems. Food companies, for example, will devote increasing amounts of space to easily understood explanations of point rationing and nutrition. Packers, with the blessing of OPA. will soon issue ads designed to make people understand...
...knows exactly why Boss Pendergast picked Truman for the Senate. One theory: the Boss was in the whimsical mood of a socialite sneaking a pet Pekingese into the Social Register. A better theory: the Boss was impressed by the Midwestern adage that every manure pile should sprout one rose-he saw in Truman a personally honest, courageous man whose respectability would disguise the odors of the Pendergast mob. Certainly Truman was no statesman in 1934. Neither had he ever been touched by scandal...
...seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone a la cat, husband decides to put Simone...
With savage shipping losses to counteract, every ounce of grain, every Brussels sprout (see col. 1) was needed to keep the nation alive. Because farm hands had been conscripted into service or lured away by higher wages in war industries, the spring labor problem was put on the narrow shoulders of Britain's moppets. They responded as heroically as they had when they were blitz messengers; as industriously as when they were waste salvagers, as enthusiastically as when they were training themselves to become future airmen and nurses...