Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Default. By every available piece of evidence, the voters had already made up their minds to answer: yes, it's time for a change. That was why Earl Warren could afford to campaign like a big, friendly Saint Bernard, tail-wagging his way east across the nation. The Republicans had only to raise no ruckus, make no thumping blunders, keep their fingers crossed against a world upheaval-and their election seemed assured...
...four games will you consider it a successful season?" Art Valpey asked the Boston sportswriters at last winter's get-acquainted meeting. "Yes!" chorused the experts...
Since then, Valpey's lads have slogged through six weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
...beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week Johann was saying: "Today, yes, we can count ourselves fortunate...
...Falconer, liked it. Bing wrung pledges for ?60,000 from Edinburgh merchants, the Art Council of Great Britain and the City of Edinburgh. Then he wrote to Bruno Walter: "If we can get the Vienna Philharmonic to come, will you come to conduct it?" Walter quickly said yes. "After that," says Bing, "it was easy. When artists were diffident, it was only necessary to tell them Bruno Walter was coming...