Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seriousness, do "democratic" and "simple" have the same connotation? . . . I find in my own thinking that the term should be "difficult" rather than "simple." To be "democratic" in all things is hard. To keep a "democratic" way of life we must work, struggle, and perhaps even...
Rough Campaign. The boss had strung along with ex-Auctioneer Jim McCord, out to get a third term, for Governor. This time, for the first time in 20 years, Crump's support was a liability: all over Tennessee, people had finally become fed up with one-man rule from Memphis. They were also fed up with McCord, mainly because he had jammed a 2% sales tax through the legislature...
...over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...
Insemination by donor, the commission decided, is a "breach of the marriage." The bald term adultery was avoided to save the sensibilities of some churchgoing practicers of donor conceptions who might not have suspected that they were doing anything wrong...
Gasping Housekeeper Nesbitt spent her first term struggling against chaos. Already, "world leaders were swooping down on us from all directions"-and terrifying memos were swooping down from Mrs. Roosevelt ("Mrs. Nesbitt: There will be 5,000 to tea"). Salesmen stormed the doors with "gift" samples of everything from cravats to cheese; Peach, Cherry and Potato "Queens" left laden bushel baskets all over the floor; deputations stamped in & out; photographers' flashbulbs exploded like small arms. Eighty-three thousand casual visitors streamed through every month, leaving a trail of mud and cigarette butts...