Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...65th birthday party Harry Truman looked and 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...
...thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
...subject of vigorous Russian politicking among German in both halves of the nation. If Germany remains split, and the eastern Soviet parties go on screaming "unity," our political position will be further weakened. Yet if agreement is impossible, then there is no choice but to go ahead with the western state...
...freshmen came right back in the bottom of the inning to go ahead for good, 4 to 3. Carduff's walk was followed by singles by Ralph Robinson, Charlie Walsh, and Henry Young and two more walks. The Crimson negotiated two more runs in the second to salt away Donelan's fourth victory...
...half-mile, however, leaving Navy and Penn to stage a close and thrilling fight for second. Both these crews were rowing a 36 for the latter part of the race, with the Red and Blue pushing the stroke up to 38 at the end to finish a bare second ahead of the Middies...