Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
More than half the students are being helped through school by the G.I. Bill of Rights, but the 745 ex-G.I. freshmen this fall were a new sort, who had never heard a gun fired in anger and had served mostly as occupation troops...
...polio bug is supposed to vamoose at the first frost. But this year polio is breaking the rules. California, particularly, was worried as it totted up late fall cases-as many as 140 new cases in one week...
...longer as simple as that. More mechanization would probably lower mining costs. Unless some of this saving was passed on to the consumer, coal consumption would fall still farther. With oil and coal both plentiful now, high-priced coal is barely able to compete with oil, and oil prices are falling. But there was no sign that Lewis was thinking of lower coal prices...