Word: warpath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
...this sense, the war against Japan was inevitably a war against its Emperor. In this sense, the great U.S. military redeployment from West to East was aimed directly at the myth of the divine Mikado, ruling a divine nation on the warpath. Grimy U.S. soldiers and marines who were last week digging out their diehard enemy from the caverns of Okinawa and Luzon were just as surely digging out this myth from the dark corners of the Japanese mind...
...provinces Canadian voters went on the warpath last week. During Montreal's worst election riots in 25 years (seven shot, 40 injured, 74 arrested) Quebec voters tossed out the Liberal Government of that French-speaking province. In Alberta, voters halted the march of the socialist C.C.F...
Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...Southern members of the Farm Bloc were on the warpath last week. They were out for: 1) higher cotton prices, and 2) the scalp of the New York Cotton Exchange...