Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...front porch of his home in Uvalde, Tex., telling newsmen that the only thing that interested him was four setting bantam hens and his eight-acre "patch." Two months ago, just after his Presidential aspirations had gone up in cigar smoke at the Democratic Convention, he had gone to ground in Uvalde, and there he had stayed. When he was asked about his plans, and whether he thought of returning to his duties in Washington, he replied: "Tomorrow is only a day away. You can always make up your mind tomorrow." Washington wondered last week what had suddenly inspired Texas...
...bosses had only one really happy moment: the vicarious thrill when irate, 200-lb. James Bruno, Harlem district boss, slugged Mr. Simpson to the ground with one mighty smash on the mouth. Mr. Bruno was angry at Mr. Simpson's unprofessional interference...
...Nazi war machine ground through the Lowlands, wheeled on France and broke it, stood poised, with engines purring, at the English Channel, the nervous U. S. public wanted to know what the Defense Commission was up to. Where were the results? There were none to exhibit. Motormaker Knudsen was tooling up industry to produce the armed forces' materiel, giving orders to the best, quickest, cheapest manufacturers, easing industry on to a war footing. Meantime Congress, the President, the Army & Navy kept expanding their objectives. Not until late July did the U. S. defense program jell into...
This is the opinion of Dr. John E. Gordon, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the Medical School, who has just returned by clipper from England where he was laying the ground work for the establishment of a hospital and public service health unit by Harvard University and the American Red Cross for the study and treatment of communicable diseases under wartime conditions...
...Roosevelt excused his action on the ground that he was speeding aid to Britain, which the majority of Americans want done. But the greater majority of Americans who favor a strong national defense had no chance to give their opinion of the deal. Mr. Roosevelt has thus set a precedent of great danger...