Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snow White he had a vague notion of some day doing a serious opera in animovie style. As early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse short. Disney didn't know what he was letting himself...
...committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...
Clare Boothe went to England to look at "this happy breed of men, these sunning English." "The cuckoo, the nightingale and the swallow had returned to all the London parks." Some of the sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more...
There was sympathy for the fatigue lines under Franklin Roosevelt's eyes, but the nation also wanted action on the dramatic scale of the 100 days of 1933. Only a few people expected anti-aircraft guns to sprout from every rooftop, but the U. S. as a whole wanted assurance that industry, finance, labor, politicians would all fuse in a national mobilization for defense...
...field of 10-watt bulbs for electric displays, they found after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...