Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi's rancorous old Dixiecrat John Rankin had been nursing his wounds and biding his time. He had been bent on revenge ever since House Democrats unceremoniously kicked him off the publicity-making Un-American Activities Committee. Last week, like an angry mosquito, he circled, swooped and stung Congress spang on one of its most sensitive political spots. Over the loud protests of his Veterans' Affairs Committee (seven members walked out on him), Chairman Rankin highhandedly rammed through a staggering pension bill which seemed designed as much to pay back his congressional enemies...
...Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
Police guessed that he might have stolen $600,000 in three years. Said Beverly Hills' Police Chief Clinton Anderson with admiration: ". . . One of the greatest burglars who ever operated...
Stevens, a 42-year-old farmer who once taught school, admitted that he had been dipping into the town till ever since he took office in 1935, but he had put back...
...known whether she ever came to hold a party card...