Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marched before the credentials committee. Some pleaded that it was all a mistake-deep down inside they had been for Truman all along. Others were truculently defiant. After hearing them out, the credentials committee unanimously recommended the purging of five Southerners. The committee briskly voted approval. It was the first such expulsion since...
...investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern, Boyle probably knows more Democratic politicians by their first names than...
...total cost of the first 95 B-365 ordered, said the Air Force, was more than $6,000,000 apiece, including the addition of jet pods and a new bombing system; the next 75 would be $4,700,000 a copy...
...battle to get the plan modified at a special election in November. They had begun in typical California style by hiring one Joe Robinson-the same professional signature collector who had raised the funds and gotten the signatures to put Proposition 4 over in the first place...
Fate of Man. To prevent his whale from swallowing his novel, Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...