Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prefect Luizet felt the ground swell of sympathy for Paris chiffoniers, and annulled his directive. Declared one of the reprieved entrepreneurs: "What we want .to keep above all else is our liberty. You understand? We want to be our own bosses...
...Maybe some of you people can make ends meet. . . . Personally I feel that on my salary [$51.25 a week] I'm in right field without a glove. But I'm doing something about it right now. In the Army I had a swell pal. He's no Ph.D. but he's living nicely, and look at us. This fellow Joe offered me a job last week. I said I'd think it over. But I'm through thinking. Know what job Joe offered me? Tending bar. I'll get $60 a week...
...response curve of the Cobra is the result of more than three years' experimentation and hundreds of listening tests. Our human guinea pigs ranged from factory workers to outstanding musicians. We decided on the curve we finally adopted when the nonmusicians voted "Swell" and some of the musicians heard in old records nuances and even instruments that they had never known were there...
...might not be re-elected this year. Democrats shuddered over a poll in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). It indicated that Governor Lausche, a native Clevelander, would win it by no more than 64,000. In 1944 he had taken it by a record 192,000 to ride out the Republican swell that carried the state for Dewey & Bricker. If Lauschecould be beaten, the Democrats were in bad shape indeed...
...people. Said he afterwards: "I hanged those ten Nazis . . . and I am proud of it. ... I wasn't nervous. . . . A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. . . . I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me . . . they all did swell. . . . I am trying to get [them] a promotion. . . . The way I look at this hanging job, somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident, years ago in the States...