Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acted like a man who had few qualms about the future. Congress was acting up again (see The Congress) and he still had four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
Lawyer Clay, who retired four years ago to his Kentucky farm, worked hard to keep the case alive. He needled federal officials unmercifully, got newspaper backing, claimed that the investigation was not being pressed. During the turmoil, U.S. Attorney Claude Stephens filed a $50,000 libel suit against him, for charging the U.S. Attorney's office with "incompetence or worse...
...Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard had come back to Kentucky in search of a political career...
Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
...many a visitor from foreign lands, La Pipelette might seem expendable. The concierge's duty, wrote a German essayist some years ago, is "to open the front door for tenants because they have no keys. Why have they no keys? Because there is a concierge to open the front door...