Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this for a starter, The Hat tore into the Governor and all local tickets (except his own, headed by No Deal Party man Newbold Morris), hurled the name "politician" as though it were a vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
Crackpots had various other ideas. To all of them 67-year-old Admiral King, soon to retire, replied frostily that the postwar plan was only a starter; nothing was definite about the Navy's plan. But until the Navy was satisfied that it had something better, it would hold to the kind of fleet which had fought and won World...
...starter, out went three top members of the Stettinius team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
...committeemen declared that a university which fails to promote a vigorous religious life among its students is shirking one of its major responsibilities. The committee proposed that Yale's Department of Religion, which now offers only four courses, taught by instructors from other departments, be enlarged. As a starter, the department might employ full-time instructors in psychology and the history of Christianity. Eventually it should include an anthropologist, a historian, a linguist, specialists in non-Christian religions and in the philosophy of religion...
...Associated Press flash from Reims came over the radio-newsroom tickers at 9:35 a.m. Was it or wasn't it the starter's gun? The networks, ad libbing for dear life, decided that...