Word: disappointments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after all, the world has rarely seen anything like General George Smith Patton Jr. Last week, when he came home from the wars, 750,000 people jammed the 20-mile parade route into downtown Boston waiting to see and cheer the conquering hero. Georgie Patton did not disappoint them...
Wescott's second novel in 18 years will disappoint readers who remember the youthful vitality of The Grandmothers (1927). The story of a bullying Nazi officer who moves in on a family in Athens (which Wescott has never visited), it is an uneven, over-literary tour de force, interesting chiefly for its suggestion that some liberated Europeans may, for a time, feel rather lost without their brutal conquerors...
Roughly Speaking (Warners) should not disappoint admirers of Louise Randall Pierson's brisk, brash autobiography of a rampant housewife (TIME, June 28, 1943), and will probably amuse plenty of others. Dashing through some 40 years, it does comically for the U.S. middle class much of what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn does more seriously for the not-quite-working class...
...small towns] you simply must conform ... or live like a hermit and disappoint your husband and his people...
...which the President had read aloud the day before were still there. But peppered among them now were other words, phrases, sentences, bitter, taunting, contemptuous words which stung the majority leader like slaps in the face: "unwise," "inept," "indefensible special privileges to favored groups," "dangerous precedents for the future," "disappoint and fail the American taxpayers." Taxpayers' confusion, asserted the President, was not the Treasury's fault but "squarely the fault of the Congress of the United States...