Word: dewey
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...people had come to witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant he would beat Tom Dewey, who had snubbed the plowmen. From then on the plow meet became a must campaign stop for aspiring Presidents...
Backstage, the legendary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, 65, waits his turn to go on, a red plastic crawfish dangling from the neck of his violin. He speaks of the "great migration" -- the expulsion of the French Acadians from Canada in 1755 -- as if it happened yesterday. "What they brought here is still alive in our culture and our love for each other," he says. "I'm an American, but I don't want to lose my French identity...
Under new Coach Sarah Dewey, the lightweight squad, while not making their usual trek to California this year, is looking forward to as good a season as last year. The varsity lightweight four placed first in Nationals last June...
...York Governor's spin doctors may be trying too hard to burnish his lackluster re-election victory. Cuomo's percentage of 53.5%, they note, was more than the 53.2% garnered in 1950 by another three-term Governor and one- time presidential contender: Thomas E. Dewey...
Poker may be the most successful U.S. export these days. Here at Binion's, where tournament poker took shape in 1970, there are good players from India, Sweden and other places that seem unlikely. Dewey Tomko estimates that there are only ten or 15 really successful players, whose lives and incomes would be comparable to those of the world's best tennis professionals. Sure, he admits when an eyebrow is raised, there are a lot of others who scuffle along at $200,000 a year, "but that's as bad as having...