Word: branding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
...81st Congress was six months old. No one had yet put his brand marks on it, though several had tried. In the first glow of the session it was hopefully hailed as a Fair Deal Congress, but that was obviously a misnomer. Then when Republicans and Southern Democrats ganged up to kill Harry Truman's civil rights program, an angry C.I.O. official said that Congress was run by the "Dixiegop." That was also too pat. It hardly fitted last week's news, in which the Fair Deal won a big victory in one house and lost...
...Flags & Cold Tea. Then the re-indoctrination for the U.S.-brand of democracy went awry. Some 500 of the repatriates were shuttled on to their native Kyoto. To the old city's railway station trooped a crowd of official greeters. All was carefully planned, including the serving of tea by the local women's club. But Kyoto's Communists moved into the party and made it their own show...
...Baltimore to buy Judy a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia still looking for a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded me as a spy and now you are trying to brand me as a harlot," she cried...
...even to visualize the blackshirt terror closing in. Some readers will not have the patience to keep track of the dozens of lightly sketched characters; others will gag on the implication that communism was the only answer to Mussolini. But A Tale of Poor Lovers is no U.S.-brand party-line novel. It is wise, involved and European-a swarming microcosm of social and psychological complexities in modern Italian life...