Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Jefferson. By banquet time, the nonpolitical, bipartisan veneer had worn away. Chortling Harry Truman told the diners: "I have to deliver an address of a bipartisan nature that will be entirely satisfactory to the Democrats of Minnesota." The diners roared...
...spite of Italy's veneer of Americanism, however, a tourist feels more an outsider there than in Franco or England. The monuments and the works of art he has come to see are completely unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money...
...Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies are beginning to talk in earnest and without apologies about how people actually live and how they treat each other. It is a wonderful, healthy sign...
...trains. It has a coat of shining orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...
...American teachers of democracy could not be .sure where their lessons would end. Once before the Japanese had acquired a veneer of Western progress. They had achieved mass education and mass production. They had learned to forge steel, to fly-and to bomb Pearl Harbor...