Word: disappointments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...rather than disappoint his readers, Author Cain does some thimblerigging with family birthmarks, and soon fixes things so that Kady is not Jess's daughter after all, and they may step out together hand in hand to enjoy more commonplace sins of Cain, such as adultery, bigamy, perjury, moonshining, arson, mayhem and murder. "She was anybody's woman," mutters Jess gloomily-after he has neatly exploded Kady's real father with a large charge of dynamite, and she has run away with a more tolerant sort...
Ashore, Sugino learned of the adulation accorded him at home for his promotion to glory. Rather than surrender his godlike reputation and disappoint the folks, Sugino settled down to nearly a half century's hiding in Hulutao, a bleak blister on Manchuria's coast. But in Japan his fame grew with the years, reached fruition when death-seeking members of the Special Attack Corps began hurling then-frail planes into U.S. warships at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa...
...version would please those who want accurate scholarship, phrased so that it would read well aloud. It would disappoint those who expected debate. Said a collaborator: "Out of the thousands of variant readings in the manuscripts, none has turned up thus far that requires a revision of Christian doctrine...
...force of the high school is not well defined, the Committee remarks. "The standard of our education is a strongly middle-class standard, which must disappoint and may embitter those (perhaps half of all the students in the high school) who find themselves cast for another role. Their good is still almost wholly to be discovered." And, failing to serve properly those not bookishly inclined, the secondary school "largely fails to find and force the able young person," the Report laments...