Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, Truman's congressional leaders were seasoned and skilled tacticians, if not deep political philosophers. Franklin Roosevelt had provided the political philosophy a decade ago; now Truman would have to. The President and his Congress leaders agreed to revive Franklin Roosevelt's old custom of conferring at the White House once a week, at Roosevelt's old hour-Mondays...
...competition in the pole vault, Morcom will have Pete Harwood, who won the IC4A title for the Crimson two years ago, two members from the current varsity squad, and athletes from North-eastern and Boston University...
Aycock then drew a parallel between compulsory health insurance and compulsory education. "A long time ago," he said, "society decided that education was good and that everyone, whether or not he could afford it or had the sense to get it, should get education. The need for health care is similarly desirable--what is the sense of educating a boy if he dies...
...addition to barking at them over an electric amplifier which carries his words more than a hundred yards through the noise of the Square, he attempts to regulate them with a manually-operated push-button traffic signal. Both the booth and traffic signal were built ten years ago when traffic conditions in the Square reached their present state of chaos, but the amplifier was not added until 1941, more or less as a last resort...
Cousy is the chief magician in Holy Cross' crowd-pleasing give-and-go, behind-the-back pass system. And his soft, tantalizing push shot is the most dangerous single weapon in the Crusader arsenal. It helped the Cross win the NCAA title two years ago, and just missed upsetting Kentucky in the same tourney last winter...