Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
...Agent Brown once wrote Shaw pointing out that on one date he had written one thing and on another a complete contradiction, to which Shaw replied, on a postcard: "My Dear C.B.: How old are you? G.B.S...
...letter arrived about midmorning. By noon, thanks to motherly Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, 60, who minded the village switchboard in the parlor of her white frame house, everyone in Geetingsville, Ind. (pop. 27) knew what the letter said: "Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain told me to write and tell you that I am charged with murder and have been sentenced to be shot. Get an attorney and try to have this sentence reduced." It was signed...
...think, my dear," said Jane's Aunt Mary, "that your wedding must be postponed...
...heard the drone of engines overhead. "I looked up," he said in a Tokyo radio interview, "and simultaneously a lightning-like flash covered the whole sky, blinding my eyes. Unconsciously, I dived for cover and a torn quilt miraculously was blown over me, which I hugged to myself for dear life...