Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week some odd sounds were coming from Harry Truman's Administration. They were made by Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. Sawyer looks like a businessman and talks like a businessman, and back in his native Ohio he is one (two radio stations, a newspaper, a sports arena and an amusement park...
...scratched vigorously as Ross droned on: "The President of the United States came down this morning at 7:25 a.m. He went for his constitutional walk at 7:30 a.m.: . . was back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...
Reporters on the ship asked the inevitable question: How does it feel to be back? "Imagine," said Angus Ward, "how you'll feel on the day after Saint Peter lets...
...Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress, testified that she had met Alger Hiss in the summer or fall of 1935 at the home of one Noel Field, whom she identified as a Communist member of the State Department...
Elated over his comeback, Bossy immediately began planning some gentle, dignified changes. "I'm gonna bring some of the old zang back to Newburyport," he promised. "My first act will be to tear the police department apart and then fire the fire chief. I'm gonna give the highway department quite a shellacking and there are gonna be some new faces around city hall...