Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landslide? In the privacy of the voting booth, contemplating 14 years of Democratic rule, voters may dump many another Democrat overboard. Then such candidates for re-election as radical Hugh De Lacey, of Washington, able Mike Monroney, of Oklahoma, gracious, conscientious Emily Taft Douglas, of Illinois, handsome Helen Gahagan Douglas, of California - all of whom are hotly engaged - will also disappear. Not only would there then be no question of Republicans organizing the House; the Republicans would have solid, unassailable control...
...Empty Booth. Difficulties between the U.S. and Britain, however, are small compared to those between the U.S. and the rest of the world. As one U.S. expert put it last week: the London conference will have achieved a great deal if it merely manages to express our official free trade policies in terms that Czechs, Frenchmen and Ecuadorians can understand, even if they do not agree...
...London's gloomy Church House, the ordinary kind of linguistic translation was proving difficult enough. Perhaps symbolically, the simultaneous interpreting system (as used at Nürnberg), which was to be installed in the conference room at Church House, did not work last week. In glass booths, marked "English," "French," "Spanish," interpreters were working merely for practice. The fourth booth, marked "Russian," was altogether empty. The Soviet Union had declined to attend the conference "at this stage...
...Safe Deposit. In Manhattan, L. F. Lozon got stuck in an office phone booth, finally got out, found that everyone else in the place had been held up and robbed...
...until someone figures out what "4g.,19t.-0" against Dartmouth in 1882 means. HARVARD COAST GUARD Coulson le Ochman Houston lt Friedhoff Rodls lg Hathaway Glynn c Caldwell Drvarlo rg Prunski Davis rt Starr Florentino re Meyer Goethals qb Vaughan L. Flynn lhb Duln Gannon rhb Cosgrove Moraveo fb Booth...