Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard much about it, but the future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
House basketball's most intensive rivalry ended yesterday afternoon when Jack (Dead Eye) Eberle of Kirkland House nosed out his teammate. "Affable Alf" Conlin by 1 point in their race for individual scoring honors...
...Affable Alf" Conflin finally jumped into the lead in the Dunster game on a foul shot. But teammate "Dead Eye" Elberle stood over the black line under the basket, so the point was cancelled...
Then "Dead Eye" went on to score a foul shot and take the lead himself. Conlin's last chance came yesterday in the Lowell game, but "Affable Alf" was too nervous, missing all three foul shots. The three year rivalry ended in victory for Eberle, one point to nothing...
Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...