Word: cons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week was 25-year-old Frank Ellis, serving three years for a little shooting scrape. He had ridden broncs at Cheyenne, Pendleton and the great Broadway roundup in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...Senators, dizzied by mental arithmetic and preparing to take a final vote, strode Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Lawrence Sullivan. He told the Senators that the Treasury would have to disown their bill, suggested they start all over again. Sore, the Senators sent for Henry Morgenthau, who con firmed his assistant's verdict. Sorer, the Senators defiantly reported their version anyhow...
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...wealth that is needed for national defense is a duty that no nation can neglect if it is to survive. But let Reader Dean ponder two facts: i) The Government cannot conscript unbuilt factories. Just now, it is trying to get volunteers to build them, hence some difficulties. 2) Con scripting wealth is a long-established principle of government. Its common name is taxation. One rearmament tax bill has been passed and another is pending...
...walking down the school street one day when the school's disciplinary master (known as "the Jeep") overtook him and quietly remarked: "Chanler, you have got just as many friends here as you ever had. You'd better come back next year." After 21 years, Chanler Chapman con cluded: "All that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen dry words spoken haphazardly by one man, suffered...