Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other omission is the stage of the campaign reached last week. As summer wore on, the nature of the pattern began to alter slightly. Instead of repetitions following one after another, they began to overlap-one blow or even two fell before the previous exploitation was complete. The theme remained the same but the rhythm was syncopated...
...Theme Song. On the Big Day, people came by foot, by train and car, by mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
...Fourth Term campaign was officially opened. In an introductory speech, Texas' Tom Connally cried: "The American people will not cashier the Commander-in-Chief on the field of battle." Harry Truman, standing under two huge elms, said nothing about himself, almost nothing of any 1944 Democratic program. His theme was plainly and simply: "You can't afford to take a chance. You should endorse tried and experienced leadership." He mentioned "experience" eight times in 20 minutes...
...helmet. Bradley's new command rated it; Ike Eisenhower knew it had been earned. The victory had been, in great part, a triumph of Bradley's bold tactics. The Eisenhower report did not touch upon anything so touchy as individual credits. Allied teamwork was its theme; and the victory had been, in sum, one of Allied strategy. But the jewel had facets which reflected historic brilliance upon U.S. arms and U.S. generalship...
...Nature of the Word is the theme of the Christmas oratorio that follows. Before the Nativity, men of the Roman Empire shrank from a future that seemed then as dismal as it does to some today...