Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Thomas sailed contentedly back to the good old U.S.A. on the Queen Elizabeth, there could be no doubt that he had given whole nations in Europe a deeper insight into the manners and mental processes of the American legislator...
...Congressman is a man who 1) smokes cigars and seems to be searching subconsciously for a cuspidor, 2) is a ferociously accurate judge of whisky, but is incredibly naive about the countries he visits, and 3) emits a regular flow of outrageous quotes aimed at the voter back home...
None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
Then the jurors-all twelve of them women-retired. They were back, after less than two hours of deliberation, with a verdict that stunned the court: not guilty...
...towering, well-tailored hodcarrier with a roguish black mustache clambered into the witness chair in a San Francisco federal courtroom last week, thumbed his red suspenders and settled back for a long stay. John Schomaker, former Communist, was Witness No.1 in the case of the U.S. v. Harry Bridges...