Word: devere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge student, armed with a proclamation from Governor Dever, followed Cambridge's troubadour to the microphones and began reading. Just as he was recounting the feats of Paul Revere and the compliments of Paul Dever, a crowd of legionnaires and citizens, all ablaze in oversized Taft buttons, surged down Garden Street from the Northwest. Soon Senator Taft strode into sight, his face set in a tight smile...
...Favorite Sons. Their strategy was simple. Unable at the moment to match him with a worthy competitor, they planned to grab the balance of power by nurturing a long list of favorite sons-among them Averell Harriman in New York, Governor Paul Dever in Massachusetts, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in Michigan, Vice President Alben Barkley in Kentucky-who could be counted on to keep their state delegations on ice, out of Kefauver's reach...
...committee which was formed following Brown's explanation, presented a petition to Governor Dever asking the state to by-pass the building if possible. Dever agreed to aid in the matter, and stated that everything possible would be done to save high school and college hockey at the Arena...
...members of the Committee on Education can recognize hypocrisy when they see it. They know that the language heard in the Commonwealth is no more related to the Queen's English than is Governor Dever to the Queen. What passes in the streets and subways as "English" is punctured with slang, idioms, and grammatical contortions...
...Dever said that the "advice' 'issued by Murphy came as a result of "Harvard graduates who were concerned with attacks made on Harvard" in the book...