Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
...Worth ever passed around copies of a mysterious nine-page document, which summed up the rumor-ridden case against the B-36? Yes, Worth admitted frankly, he had "Where did you get this document from?" Vinson demanded. Replied Worth in a crisp, calm voice: "I wrote it." Three wire-service reporters dashed for the door...
...pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck. Shipmates lashed ropes around their waists, leaped into the swirling water between the two subs; they got only six-back to the perilous refuge of the vessel's streaming deckplates. The other six simply vanished in the tumultuous waves and were never found...
...burst through the woods and into the open-air concert area, smashed the stage, set fire to the camp chairs lined up around it and burned the sheet music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...