Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Square he found a tremendous turnout. The C.I.O. and the A.F.L. had worked together to make a show of labor's numbers. Upwards of 100,000 people packed the open plaza and converging streets around City Hall. Harry Truman gave them a blunt and truculent speech on the theme that only he and the Democratic Party had the welfare of the "little man" at heart. Said...
Then Candidate Truman let his campaign theme run away with his judgment: ''If you let the Republican reactionaries get complete control of the Government ... I would fear not only for the wages and living standards of the American workingman, but even for our democratic institutions of free labor and free enterprise...
...Theme of Hate. Whatever qualms he might have had about demagoguery, Wallace responded by reading one of the bitterest speeches he has yet delivered. He ad-libbed at the start: "We condone neither German stoning nor Russian shooting"-which brought forth mild applause. Then he launched into his main theme...
...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...
...Crusaders is a novel with a theme: that there was a tangible connection between the cost of the war and the uncertainty in American war aims. It is less a war novel, in the sense that The Naked and the Dead is one, than it is one of those old-fashioned cycloramas like the Battle of Gettysburg, in which every part of the action and the features of every officer were painted...