Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midinette (from dinette: a light meal) was originally a generic term for Parisian shopgirls. Over the years, however, its use has become more & more restricted to the seamstresses...
...Prosecutor. Near the end of his second mayoralty term, F.D.R. sent him off to serve as Governor General of the Philippines, where he helped reform the islands' judicial system, improved its hospitals and pushed through suffrage. He returned in 1936 to get himself elected governor of Michigan...
...more than two hours the officers bickered. Then Barrios announced that a junta had been formed and sent two tanks to the National Palace to demand Arevalo's surrender. The President's defiant answer: "My term is six years. I will serve not one minute less and not one minute more...
...back to Argentina (where Arevalo spent 15 years). A smart politician, Arana was friendly to all, made promises and took no action-except to put down outright revolt. He did not want to upset the government; he wanted to be elected President himself in 1950, when Arevalo's term ends...
...vagueness of FCC announcements, usually tricked out in federalese, has long irritated members of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. New Hampshire's crusty Charles Tobey has been trying to pry a definite word from Edward M. Webster, who is up for confirmation for a new term as FCCommissioner...