Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout his press conference last week, Franklin Roosevelt was in rare histrionic form. He had decided to play an unfamiliar role-that of a stern, penny-pinching budgeteer-and he decided to play it broadly, for laughs. He was really "terribly concerned," he solemnly informed his audience, about the cost of the coming inaugural. The 1933, 1937 and 1941 inaugurals cost roughly $47,000 each-plus the expense of Pennsylvania Avenue reviewing stands and White House receptions. This year, a top figure of $25,000 had been set by the Congressional Inaugural Committee, headed by Virginia's apple-cheeked...
...have some expressions and a few adjectives, adverbs and participles perhaps unfamiliar. Hash on toast is, roughly translated, slop on a shingle. Telling a tall story is snowing. But in the main, we seem to talk quite ordinarily, only somewhat more vigorously than we did as civilians. Even in the Air Corps we call an airplane a ship or a plane, and we do not "rev her up," we only run up the engines and fly around hoping we won't be "jumped by the Nips, shot down in flames and have to hit the silk...
...different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe was like a sea bottom from which the ebbing of a foul tide had exposed strange, unfamiliar, disturbing forms-the forces of the social war of which World War II was a military expression...
...want to call the attention of my fellow countrymen to the intrigues of the enemy and of traitors. They are spreading all sorts of malicious rumors, predicting that there would be civil war and disunity in China. . . . I am afraid that some foreign commentators, unfamiliar with the real background, have also lent themselves unwittingly to a wider circulation of such rumors...
...sucker sends the money, and is gratified to receive 20 printed copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that all it needs is a recording, by an unfamiliar but impressively named orchestra. This can be done for a small...