Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Approach. Something more than rebuffs would be needed to win the war. The President was studying the convoy problem. Insiders knew the answer he would find. When a situation involves divided public opinion, Franklin Roosevelt likes to edge into it; only when he thinks he is sure of the reaction does he move dramatically. Probability was strong that he would exhaust every possible means of supplying the British with ships, would devise every possible shade of diplomatic approach, would allow the whole convoy problem to simmer until public opinion was definitely behind...
Blitzkrieg im Westen, which was offered by the Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic...
Although Bing's activities are quieter, his manner isn't. Old friends from Spokane still recognize the happy-go-lucky Crosby approach which is transmitted to radio audiences in the jargon which keeps the Kraft Music Hall one of the peppiest shows on the air. There is no room for the usual tense radio nerves around...
Late last year a group of defense-conscious engineers in Detroit figured out a way of supplementing the National Roster's approach. They were members of the Engineering Society of Detroit, which is an engineers' clearinghouse affiliated with the local sections of 16 national technical societies, from ceramists to welders. They had several fears: 1) the draft might get too many technicians; 2) private pirating might disrupt defense work (as it has); 3) if industry fails to get full efficiency out of its engineers, the Government might commandeer everybody's specialists. To work out an orderly procedure...
...First approach was to M. G. M. Headman Louis B. Mayer, an old Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...