Word: midstream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legislature. The Executive-President, Cabinet and the rest-are not responsible to Congress and so do not have control of Congress . . . [Our elections] are not . . . declarations by the electorate on important issues before them, but merely variations on old copybook maxims such as "Don't change horses in midstream" or "People do not generally vote against prosperity...
Here it is the day after election and I've been marked absent, Vag mused. I never got a chance to Discuss the Merits of the Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...
...bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...
...crisis line could be taken as a tip that Harry Truman is also ready for dirty weather, prepared to treat 1948 as a short-of-war year, a time to face up to the threat of World War III and no time to change White House horses in midstream...
...international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...