Word: freer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, Bookmaker Jimmy Carroll-who makes his political evaluations in the older, freer way by measuring how much money people will gamble on their guesses-announced a drop in the odds against Dewey. Right after the national conventions, betting was 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Now it is 2½-to-1. Reason, according to Bookmaker Carroll: "a flood of Dewey money...
...Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
Colonel Juan Domingo Perón suddenly had a freer hand last week in Argentina. Washington waited with silent interest to see exactly what that hand might contain...
...When the time came to threaten Allied communications with southeast Asia, the Japs dubbed Bose a general and took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows...
Giggling Proletariat. Cinema houses stopped charging admission. At bars, all drinks were on the house. At banks, tellers gave away packs of $100 bills. Free love was freer than ever. The Mayor resigned to play with toy electric trains...