Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the delegates disbanded in high spirits. Said Walter Reuther with deep satisfaction: "This is the most serious and most constructive convention we ever had." A Ford strike was now a definite possibility...
Helen Hayes stuck a hand into her deep freezer, pulled it out too late to avoid a smashed thumb when the lid banged down...
...Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
...Things That Breathe. Albert felt a sense of deep obligation to those who were not as well off as he. One day, when he won a friendly wrestling match with a bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...
...Buttressing his official family with "before-November" Trumanities, the President brought in Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, who aroused deep growls from old sea dogs...