Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prison. Earl had a dramatic chance to become a hero. But instead of crying out at the thieves who had besmirched Honest Huey's memory, he said: "Smith is only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...
...general's office came dozens of Japanese with gifts and good-luck keepsakes. Most of them ended their hesitant speeches on the same note: "General, it is a tragedy for Japan that you are leaving us." Many were weeping on the dock when the general joined "Miss Em" on the transport and sailed for a hero's welcome this week in Manila, for an old soldier's quiet life in the States as soon as the Army marks "Retired" on Uncle Bob's service record of more than 43 years...
...year. It remained for William Edmund ("Billy") Butlin, a bustling, 48-year-old onetime carnival barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages; and for listless hours when the rain is falling, a round of regimented frolic that smashes British reserve...
Some radiomen hated to let loose the goose before the golden eggs completely ran out. ABC was preparing to defend its shows, including the sensational Stop the Music (TIME, July 19). Others had still not decided whether to fight 'em or join 'em. But it seemed certain that no sponsor would want to take on a new giveaway program while FCC was in its disapproving mood...
...upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell-and behaves...