Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maury Maverick, fluent, fiery but literate Texas talker, railed against what he called Washington's "gobbledygook" language. To employes of the Smaller War Plants Corp. Chairman Maverick wrote: "Let's stop 'pointing-up' programs, 'finalizing' contracts that 'stem from' district, regional, or Washington 'levels.' There are no 'levels,' Washington local government is as high as Washington government. . . . Anyone using the words 'activation' or 'implementation' will be shot...
Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...
...soon as the labor leader returns to Texas, the case will start on its way up through the courts. But J. Frank Dobie, Texas University's famed English professor and maverick, who will soon go to Oxford to explain American civilization, has already rendered his verdict. Said Dobie: "A man can come to Texas and without interference invite all the people he wants to join the Republican Party, the Liar's Club, the Association for the Anointment of Herbert Hoover as Prophet, almost any kind of organization except one. If the Manford Law is an index of capitalism...
...rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite...
Having been a maverick philosopher who strayed into law, Holmes increasingly became a maverick justice who strayed into philosophy. His skepticism ("The skeptic cannot be a pessimist") brought him into conflict with the uncritical optimism of those liberals and progressives who claimed him for their own. Said he: "I believe that the wholesale social regeneration which so many now seem to expect . . . cannot be affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems...