Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people elect a President. Its members did not forget that, on behalf of persons yet unknown, they one & all were campaigners whose votes were bound to win and lose many more votes in the great hustings to come. Conditioned by this democratic fact, they had the following work...
...Make up their minds whether to adjourn early (as Franklin Roosevelt and his Democrats wish) or run right up to the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions, when the Congressional politicians will begin to find out how well they have done their work...
Billy Hull once said: "Cord was always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
Many a midnight, since last September, the lights have burned in a big, high-ceiled room in Harvard's Langdell Hall. Hard at work there was Dean James M. Landis of Harvard Law School, mulling 7,724 pages and 1,540,000 words of testimony by and about C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Promptly in Ottawa bookish Canadian Governor General Baron Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, both adept quotation spotters, expressed themselves as "most interested in the authorship of the quotation," but stumped. Cried Canadian Parliamentary Librarian Francis Hardy: "I have looked in every known work of appropriate reference without finding...