Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd yelled: "What about throwing them at Taft?" The President replied: "Oh, I wouldn't throw fresh eggs at Taft." At Barstow, past midnight, he popped out on the platform in pajamas and blue bathrobe. When a woman shouted that he sounded as if he had a cold, Harry Truman answered, "That's because I ride around in the wind with my mouth open." At almost every stop, he introduced Mrs. Truman as "my boss...
Last week, as the Soviets hotted up their cold war against the Allies in Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), the Air Force announced that by mid-August it would double its fighter force in Germany with jet fighters. The mission fell to the crack 36th Fighter Wing, a self-contained tactical unit now stationed at Albrook Field in the Panama Canal Zone...
...indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...
...temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid" (I'm cold...
...Thompson, 66, starchy, pince-nezed dean (for 25 years), "map-minded" history professor, U.S. delegate to the conference that founded UNESCO, outspoken feminist, internationalist and F.D.R. Democrat. More respected than beloved, Atlanta-born Dean Thompson briskly shook hands on registration day with every new Vassar girl, thereafter kept a cold eye on grades and credits until commencement...