Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many of whom, especially among first-and second-generation citizens, follow the results of European soccer as avidly as Europeans, bet their dimes and dollars in U.S. pools on the same matches...
...support of the Marshall Plan, Atlantic pact), get out, or face expulsion from the board at next October's Cleveland convention. The board called on the unions involved (e.g., the United Electrical Workers, the International Longshoremen's Union) to replace their Redline leaders with bosses who would follow C.I.O. policies. The noisy arguments carried out the window of the C.I.O. headquarters overlooking the Blair House backyard, and were overhead by Harry Truman as he got out of his car. He paused a minute, listened to a few words, grinned, went...
...needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
...points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow him in the past...
Before 1948, the administration said that the "Liberal Club did not consistently follow the expected procedure. ... Notices of meetings (would appear) in the student newspaper before requests for their approval had been made...