Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of last week's international tensions and uncertainties, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, fervent New Dealer and able, if not popular, member of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, rose in the Senate to make a cool defense of the Soviet Union and a fiery attack on Harry Truman's policy of "getting tough" with Russia...
Sportswriters were wiring home 6,000,000 words a week from the Florida and California baseball training camps. But all the words they wrote could be summed up in two: job jitters. Nobody felt safe, and everybody hustled...
...baseball's first real spring training spree since 1942, and never had so many been after so few jobs. The sun-brown Florida shopkeepers and orange pickers who watch Grapefruit League exhibition games nodded sagely: it looked like a good season...
Most of the dew sweepers at St. Petersburg, as at the other tournaments in the Florida winter "grapefruit" circuit, were country-club pros-big frogs in the little puddles and big bunkers back home. They didn't look as good against pro golf's Big 20 as they did against the local businessmen. Said Gene Sarazen, watching one of them practice earnestly for the next day's dawn patrol: "He'll be back in Swizzlestick, Arkansas, next month, giving lessons...
...rarer kind of dew sweeper was the amateur: at Florida prices, few could afford amateur standing. The dawn patrol slept in auto camps and trailers. They lived on hamburgers and Cokes. In the last few months, six top amateurs have turned pro. Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf...