Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to "You can't win 'em all," the favorite post-game platitude of the football coach is "Can't tell a thing until I see the movies...
...want to treat everybody good," says Tacho, wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
With 13 kids (only two of them girls), Timothy Conway is in the right business -retail food and groceries. Says he: "I'm in favor of feeding 'em plenty." A 15-lb. roast on Sunday is the usual thing, and there are 35-lb. turkeys at Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother...
...Melanesians were crying "Sing-out-Sorri" for the needy children of the whole world. "Palanti piki-nini," wrote a reporter in the Rabaul (New Britain) News, were in trouble, sick, starving, and "nogat moo, papa na mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned up only a measly...
They applauded when he "gave 'em hell." They watched with pleased but oddly silly smiles as he exchanged badinage with admirers, received presents, indulged in wisecracks. For all their friendliness, his listeners acted more like a vaudeville audience than a political crowd. They were vastly entertained by Harry's whipcracks at the Republican elephant. But they did not seem particularly impressed by the import of what they heard; at times they seemed almost to shrug, good-humoredly, at Harry's more intemperate statements...