Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was warm. Streams were rounding into form and trout were biting. In crowded Manhattan, this generation's Dead End Kids performed summer's immemorial rite and dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
...capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil . . . For such good will would find its inspiration in the victory which crowned our Pacific war effort to which countless gallant Americans, living and dead, contributed . . . Usurpation of such good will to serve a political end would be a shameless breach of faith...
...comfortable place. It neither welcomes pilgrims on arrival, nor says goodbye when they leave. It is seldom impressed with their triumphs and does not mourn if they choose to dive out a window. There is no lonelier sight in the world than a dead man lying on a Manhattan sidewalk, ringed by a throng of the half-curious...
...whopping Treasury surplus, had hoped for more, but active resentment was confined to the professional opposition. Most Canadians knew that Abbott's budget, though tough to take, was good for Canada. Few would agree with the Ottawa cynic who cracked: "You have to be blind, over 65 or dead to get anything...
...Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two boring hours, the Hippodrome was nearly empty -and legitimate wrestling was dead...