Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blushingly confess, the mother of four children, the oldest of whom is nearly four, so I am used to all sorts of inferential insults, ranging from "Medieval!" to "Get a calendar!"-this last from Catholics...
...limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
With the aplomb and discretion of an admiral, Ensign Brown held his first and only press conference to describe his four year voyage. "As far as the silent treatment is concerned, I can't think of any case of anyone doing anything since I've been here. If you mean do the fellows speak to me-well, for the most part most of them do." As for the officers and civilian personnel, "they couldn't have been more impartial...
...boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
...Sunday night, when Sheriff George C. Hatcher was waked by a Negro. He was bleeding across the chest. "Picky Pie Hill done did me over at the New Harlem Club in Mclntyre," he said. The sheriff jumped into his car and headed for the tin-roofed Negro juke joint four miles away...