Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's "old contemptibles," from the France of Ypres and the Somme, heard that the armies and the fleets were crossing the Channel again, and said: "It must be something to see!" A G.I. from Cincinnati, left behind by history in Piccadilly Circus, heard the news and said: "When do the bars open? I want a drink...
...crucial problem was finding a feasible process for producing DDT in the large quantities needed. It was solved last year by a Swiss-born chemist, Dr. Oskar Frey, of the Cincinnati Chemical Works. Cincinnati Chemical still produces 60% of the DDT supply...
...Ohio, Democrats last week nominated the Mayor of Cleveland, and Republicans the Mayor of Cincinnati, to succeed John Bricker as Governor. Cleveland's able Frank Lausche (rhymes with howshay), his party's hottest vote getter in a decade (TIME, Nov. 15), got 30,000 more votes than his five opponents combined. Democrats jubilantly figured he might not only win the Governorship but also lure Republican Ohio into the Term IV column in November...
...Republican side, Cincinnati's natty James Garfield Stewart, State Boss Ed Schorr's candidate, barely beat out two rivals, both last-named Herbert (TIME, March 13). One of the Herberts (Attorney General Thomas J.), was Senator Harold Burton's choice to derail the Schorr machine; he finished only 2,005 votes behind Stewart, and talked of a recount...
...Whip. Cried Cincinnati's energetic Preacher R. Gammon Morris: "I am for war. I am an American, I am a Methodist, and I am a Negro. . . . Jesus Christ, when things got into confusion, didn't stand up in the temple and preach to men that after a while things would be all right. ... He went and got Him a whip. I declare to you that it is time for us to get a whip and stay by that whip until totalitarianism has been driven from the face of the earth...