Word: stress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikkola expects to have 18 men sufficiently recovered from the stress and strain of exams to participate in the B.A.A. Games at Boston Garden...
...like to see your film on the Bolivar ceremony." Harry Truman sat silent through the half-hour, full-color documentary. Both his own speech and that of Gallegos were exhortations in praise of democracy. The movie over, the President said: "A fine picture. It says what we want to stress. It should be shown in every school of the Americas...
...replaceable; these are the party-line flipflops that make the headlines, but they do not change the core of theory and program. To understand the manipulable strategy and tactics, Stalin's followers - and his intended victims - have to understand the inner theory and program. Historicus puts his heaviest stress on Stalin's use of fixed theory right along with and intermeshed with shifting tactics. Stalin employs both, simultaneously. Most politicians of the West tend to bear down on one or the other, in a given situation...
...with every refrigerator bought from Sears, Roebuck & Co. In Chicago, washing machines were offered at $50 below list price. Manhattan stores trimmed prices of women's dresses, furs, shoes, gloves, millinery, hosiery from 25% to 50%. Even the carriage trade's Hattie Carnegie, who ordinarily does not stress prices, advertised a clearance sale of hats...
Blame from a Reporter. The A.P. had tried to make things clear on election night. At midnight, A.P. Executive Editor Alan Gould had told the New York staff: "Now we must stress the fact that Truman is keeping his lead . . . until now, Dewey has been the story even where he is behind." (Why Dewey was still the story when Underdog Truman was obviously the news, Gould...