Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spindly, freckle-faced kid with a wide grin, Hubert Jr. was his high school's prize debater, came out second in the state's regional tournament. That was in 1929 and Hubert...
...darling of the Townsendites (though he nimbly avoided endorsing the Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...
...time he came up for re-election in 1947, Humphrey hardly needed to campaign. He won by an even greater plurality than before, carried every ward in the city. Hubert Horatio Humphrey got to thinking about Washington again...
...opening day of Congress last week, Humphrey told Assistant Simms: "Be sure to brief me on protocol. I'm liable to start sliding down the bannisters." In the Senate chamber, he spotted his family sitting in the gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...
...week's end, the flu (and the hangovers) were still far from under control. Sneezing, snorting Frenchmen speculated about where the flu came from. "I think," said one housewife, "it is an experiment in Russian bacteriological warfare." Others recalled that the post-World War I flu, which supposedly started in Spain, had been known accordingly as the Spanish flu. This one, Frenchmen were sure, had crossed over from Italy. They promptly called it la grippe Italienne. With an acerbity that boded ill for European unity, Italians in Paris retorted by calling it influenza Francese...