Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...
Hallowed Word. Then he turned serious. "I have had every honor to which any man could aspire. There is no place on the whole earth except here in America where all the sons of man could have this chance in life ... I have worked in governments of free men, of tyrannies, of Socialists and of Communists. I have met with princes, kings, despots, and desperadoes. I have seen the squalor of Asia, the frozen class barriers of Europe. And outstanding everywhere to these great masses of people there was a hallowed word-'America.' To them...
...skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
Only about three out of every 100 cases are the result of battle wounds. But VA regulations are not too strict. Any veteran whose teeth went bad while in service is entitled to free care. If cavities or other dental troubles show up within a year after discharge (provided the veteran has served at least six months), the trouble is presumed to be "service-connected." The ex-serviceman can get free dental service for as long as he needs it on any tooth treated in his first year out of service...
...veteran with an aching molar may have to wait four months to get free care, or his dentist will have to wait four months for his pay. Typical question : If the veteran has one front tooth with a cavity that developed while he was in service, and this affected the tooth next to it, which can be filled? Answer: Only the tooth with the service-connected cavity. But if both teeth have to be pulled out, the VA will pay for a bridge for both gaps...