Word: finalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...When the final chapter of Joy Street was dispatched," writes Frances Parkinson Keyes in the foreword to her new novel. "... I was too completely exhausted to feel the slightest elation ... I could not believe the ordeal was over; it had become one of those nightmares which apparently has no end, but goes...
Very little in the first hundred pages of this final batch of F.D.R.'s letters (Vols. III & IV cover the years from 1928 to 1945) would lead anyone to suspect that he would soon become one of the most daring and controversial political leaders of his time. But after he took office as President, the letters have a more thoughtful tone; they are dominated by a grave anxiety over the future of the country and by an almost imperious energy in behalf of the program by which Roosevelt proposed to save...
...preacher-hero's pep talk to a college assembly. Jesus, he assures, "is in your backfield-the greatest triple threat player the world has ever known . . . He could plunge, pass and punt, that is preach, pray and penetrate to the very heart of God ... Yes, in the final minutes of the game, beaten back to His goalline, this great Champion . . . sent the ball spiralling far into the opponents' territory [and] the stone was rolled away...
...final verdict of his fellow editors is that Roosevelt was no democrat during the time he was on the paper; for example, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. The next year other editors stopped "that concession to snobbery...
...final plan that goes to Congress will represent the Administration's longrange solution to the manpower problem, barring an all-out emergency. In that case, of course, there would be general mobilization for all able-bodied...