Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eve of the C.I.O. convention (see above), the War Labor Board confessed that the cost of living had risen 29-30%. This was quite an admission, since the Little Steel formula assumes that the cost of living has gone up only...
...Hollywood career to go to the Far East. She was at her husband's side in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked, lost everything but the sweater and slacks she was wearing when they bombed Manila and burned her home to the ground. On New Year's Eve she made a last-minute getaway to Bataan-caught a little island freighter at midnight as the Manila docks went up in flames...
Washington's Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department...
...well-bred as Harris Wofford Jr.'s first recruits in wealthy Westchester County. But few have had the chance to become as well-traveled as Founder Wofford. Son of an executive of huge Prudential Insurance Co., he circled the globe with his grandmother at eleven, spent a Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, was in Rome when Mussolini was ranting out of the League of Nations. He remembers Shanghai as it looked after it was bombed by the Japanese...
...Gallup poll, after hanging squarely on the fence for days, made no final prediction, but totted up its election-eve total: Roosevelt, 51.5%; Dewey, 48.5%. In electoral votes, Gallup gave F.D.R. 18 sure states with 165 votes, Dewey ten sure states with 85 votes; and left 20 states with 281 votes in the balance...