Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
Dean Acheson, brown-suited and carefully brushed, let photographers swirl and flash around him. Then for an hour he held forth. Quickly he read through the treaty's 14 articles. Essentially, the parties to the pact agreed that...
Naturally the coalition's cocksureness and the Fair Dealers' despair were both exaggerated by the events of the past fortnight. But the Dixiegop, which looked like a new phenomenon to Wayne Morse and a curious hybrid to C.I.O., had been around in one form or another in dozens of Congresses, and it was a species that died hard. No one knew that better-now -than Fair Dealer Harry Truman...
Inept Show. The whole filibuster fight was hard for most people to understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming...
...Society is an organization devoted to telepathy, which is the process of sending thought messages from one person to another, and with clairvoyance, which is one person's mental awareness of certain physical occurrances around...