Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and grain speculator, treasurer of the party (1942-45), whom Truman once nominated for Under Secretary of the Navy, an appointment he had to withdraw because of senatorial opposition. Pauley raised a lot of West Coast oil money. Seldom seen around the White House any more, he keeps in touch by long-distance telephone...
...congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
...Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...
...weeks Nicaragua's foxy, folksy Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza toured his volcano-studded domain. Ostensibly, he was inspecting his Atlantic Highway (not yet completed) and the villages and towns along the Atlantic coast. Actually he was giving his local jejes (leaders) the word on 1951's presidential election. Tacho, who was President from 1937 to 1947, would like to be President again in name as well as in fact...