Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blunder. In rural districts Young Bob lost more votes by coming out on election eve against feeble, aged (82), but popular Governor Walter S. Goodland, who won renomination without a campaign. German-Americans, once solid for the La Follettes, no longer balloted in a bloc. This time many voted a preference for McCarthy's conservative stand on domestic issues...
...eve of the primary, political wiseacres were still trying to size up the President's gamble. Congressman Roger Slaughter still had most of the chips. But in Kansas City a pair of bookies and self-styled election experts named Gold Tooth Maxie and Cozy Dolan put their heads together, issued the track odds: even money, take your pick...
Hawk-nosed Novelist Vardis Fisher spends twelve hours a day working his farm in Idaho's Snake River country, four hours a night whipping out impassioned prose (Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...
...delivered it in a message sent to all department heads by Acting Budget Director Paul Appleby: "For fiscal 1948 [begins July 1, 1947] we must plan not only for a balanced budget but for a ... reduction of the [$268,000,000,000] national debt. . . .We are on the eve of a period of high prosperity and substantially full employment. In these conditions, sizable debt reduction is nothing short of obligatory...
...years by a London obstetrician: that childbirth is not naturally painful, that rather it should be an occasion of "exaltation and incomparable happiness." The cause of women's agony, insists Dr. Grantly Dick Read, is fear-a traditional anxiety with womankind ever since the Lord God warned Eve: "In pain thou shalt bring forth children" (Genesis...