Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That blow did almost as much for Ted Williams' reputation as the 23 homers he had walloped for the Red Sox. Almost everybody forgot the sad all-star performance of the National Leaguers (who got whitewashed 12-0). Visiting sportswriters who knew the prewar Williams as a sulky swatter whose hitting was good and ballpark behavior was bad wrote glowing stories acclaiming him for what he was: the best hitter in baseball...
...guesses ran from a 20% to a 50% rise. But the guessers forgot that in a free, productive economy things do not always work according to plan. As long as no one has enough money to buy everything he wants, then he can buy one thing only by not buying something else. Thus, if rents jump up 35% (as they have in many places) the hard fact is that the renter will not be able to buy something else. Prices of many items were certain to rise. But prices of other items may drop...
...Willis took one hard look and withdrew. LaFollette stayed in the race, got only 105 votes for his pains, then quit the G.O.P. completely. The total for Jenner: 1,994. With Democratic influence dissipated in the state, the nomination virtually assured Jenner a Senate seat. But Indiana Republicans almost forgot to talk about him, fell to speculating on what gruff, stocky Governor Gates might do when he got behind the wheel himself. Cried those who had breathed too heavily of exhaust fumes: "Gates for Vice President...
...What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
...recalls many exacting moments: The high point of his career was Commencement Day, 1944, when seniors were leaving, the class of 1919 was having a colorful spree in Lowell courtyard, and the class of 1948 was entering. He also had a hot time Christmas of that year when someone forgot to open the chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps...