Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were aware of the tensions in U.S.-Russian relations. But the nation had absorbed all kinds of world-shaking news in the last decade and simply refused to get excited because some Greeks had started shooting at each other. Last week the U.S. was saving its worrying for the fall. It was just too hot for it, brother, just...
General Douglas MacArthur, who has spent about a third of his 67 years outside the U.S., let fall that when he retires in about 18 months he expects to live in Milwaukee, his boyhood home. "After all," said the General's lady, "we are Americans...
...signed up Negroes 3 & 4. Ex-G.I.s Willard Brown and Henry Thompson were leading hitters on the Negro Kansas City Monarchs. In the first five games with the Browns, they got an unspectacular four hits between them. The crowd-pulling novelty was about over; Negroes would stand or fall as ballplayers, which was the way they wanted...
When Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale meet in the ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
...what businessmen already knew: that the U.S. economy was turning out $225 billion in goods and services annually, highest in U.S. history. There were some trouble spots. Many prices, said the report, were still too high. Exports, which had done much to ward off any recession, were bound to fall off by year's end. But inventories had been brought into reasonable balance, credit buying was again within healthy bounds, and things in general, said the report, were in excellent shape...