Word: transient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's red-brick Church House, a relic of Queen Victoria's jubilee and once a haven for the bombed-out House of Commons, was being readied for another transient tenant...
Except for transient lapses, Peru had always been governed by a small, tight oligarchy which allowed the people little influence. Elections, when held, were closely controlled. But last week the voters were not intimidated. The Army made no move. There was no significant disorder. Aristocratic President Manuel Prado strolled through the streets of Lima, almost unescorted, to cast his vote amid the cheers of the populace...
Comedian Fred Allen was willing for radio to dredge up new writers ("Most radio favorites are only mouths spawning the brain-roe of tired little men . . .") but was sourly suspicious of radio-born comedians: "A comedian who has had only radio knows only the reactions of transient mobs, who float from program to program posing as audiences, and tends to gear his antics [to] this moronic element, forgetting the millions of intelligent listeners...
...societies and epochs are transient details...
This Seven-Seas fleet of such vast size and power that it is almost a world police force in itself had been built, apparently, by men dissatisfied with their working conditions-practically by transient laborers, if the Navy Yards turnover was at 60%. And even as Donald Nelson worried over the manpower to make landing craft, production of landing craft shot up 35%, in figures reported this week...