Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dodge said Schiller had stopped skiing about 75 feet from the lip of the headwall and then had slipped gradually until he was carried over the edge into a torrent of water that coursed under the snow cover...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
Last weekend 2,000 delighted people gathered to watch the best part of all-a high-speed painting job donated by 96 A.F.L. painters. Scaffolding was rigged to give each man just 16 square feet of space to cover. A big timing clock was set up. Bob Hoelzle and his bride-to-be, a pretty telephone operator named Frances Noll, were stationed at a vantage point in the front yard. Then the mayor started the proceedings by firing a pistol...
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While he was taking things easy, Campbell joined the Thirteen Club ("All lungers-twelve of 'em died"), became editor of the Tucson Citizen, and went to Mexico to cover a revolution. When the Republican National Committee bought the Citizen, Campbell, though a Republican himself, quit ("I couldn't take dictation from any pressure group...