Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a let-Harry-do-it approach was just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve the nation's financial health...
...movie struck, and its residents imitate and envy the stars of the screen- though members of "downtown" society and the rich of Pasadena enjoy bristling at them and Los Angeles society pages go out of their way to avoid printing a motion-picture person's name. It is a city full of people from somewhere else and it still has little sense of tradition or of unity...
...banished slot machines and pinball games-though most of them reap peared outside the city limits. He abolished other municipal evils-the sale of civil-service promotions and the use of the city zoning ordinance to squeeze bribes from commercial enterprises...
...flight to Nome. Under Bowron's administration 50 miles of cast-iron water mains had been laid every month to keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. had installed 416,338 telephones since V-J day, it was 41,405 orders behind last week...
Frost was, at last, going back in time to the richly and fearfully storied past; he had taken the way that only the greatest modern men of letters-Joyce, Mann,, Eliot-have been able to take without being engulfed, into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...