Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...
...York City, Boston and Charleston, thousands of men piled down the gangplanks, lugging barracks bags, German sabers and helmets. They wolf-yowled at the WAC bands, kneeled to make the sign of the cross. One G.I., debarked to a bus, impetuously obeyed his resolve to kiss the first American girl he saw (see cut). The bus de-bussed them before they could even exchange names...
...Charleston's WCHS, Clarksburg's WBLK, Parkersburg's WPAR, Huntington's WSAZ...
MIRIAM GALLAHER MARY LESLIE HARRISON Charleston, W.Va...
...weak Democratic flank-the left-wing support for Franklin Roosevelt from P.A.C. and the Communists. Tom Dewey marched ahead without so much as glancing at this temptingly vulnerable spot-until Franklin Roosevelt, needled by the jabs from Republican underlings, rose to disclaim his Communist support. Then, at Charleston, W.Va., Dewey let go hard against the President's "soft" disavowal. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt doesn't like the Communists, said Dewey, but look how they like...