Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida's Doris Hart and Ohio's Shirley Fry, the National women's doubles title, by beating California's Louise Brough and Maureen Connolly, 10-8, 6-4; at Brookline...
After Labor Day, Candidate Eisenhower will make a two-day airplane tour across seven southern states (Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas), flying in a chartered DC-6 and making speeches at airports. At least ten cities in the Democrats' Solid South will be on Ike's high-flying schedule. It will be the most extensive Southern tour ever made by a presidential nominee...
...they moved on through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee and Florida, their crowds grew in size, and so did their equipment. When George's family joined Lawrence's on the road, the Brunk caravan swelled to three trailers and two more tents, the largest built to shelter 6,000. They also bought a small airplane which George pilots to reconnoiter future camp sites...
...campaign begins, Ike's best chances in the South are in Florida, Texas and Virginia. Whether he gets any or many of the South's electoral votes now depends on how well his campaign goes over with Southern voters...
Unfortunately, .says Professor Thomas Pyles of the University of Florida, the average educated American has mastered the rules of grammar, and his speech is "frequently dry, dull, tedious, overprecise . . ." In a new book called Words and Ways of American English (Random House; $3.50), Pyles argues that American speech is much too prissy. It long ago shunned the rough & tumble language of the farm, and it also discarded the "careless elegance" of the 18th century drawing room. Instead it adopted "the tortured precision prescribed by the grammarians who served as arbiters of language for the 'new men' created...