Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undeniably true, as the pamphlet Race in the News reveals, that numerous Southern editors still cater to anti-Negro prejudice, thus flagrantly ignoring their responsibilities both for better newspapers and better race relations . . . [However], in addition to such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times, I certainly wish to include the Nashville Banner . . . And surely the Greensboro daily News, the Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald, all published in North Carolina, deserve honorable recognition, as does the Columbia (S.C.) Record...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
Last week, officials of the Archdiocese of Newark summoned 400 nuns from parochial schools, handed out copies of a four-page circular urging the election of Wene. Explained Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty: "The interests of the church would be better served by Wene and other Democratic candidates...
None of this guaranteed victory to James Michael Curley. The old man liked it better when the ring was crowded; there was a choice of targets, and his opponents might knock each other out instead of him. Curley might yet be around to horrify Boston's reformers for another term...
...past the tower, Vag heard the church clock finish out its little four-phrase tune, and then ring twice. That for the kickoff. The next swallow was easier. He reached a glass out of the bookcase, filled it half-full, and gulped it down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled...