Word: gallops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel's challenger, Clinton McKinnon, 37 is little bigger than an outsize jockey. It has taken him only about three years to gallop an idea, and little else, into his San Diego daily. The idea: local news sheets handed free to Los Angeles County's swarming war workers (TIME, Nov. 2, ). Last August McKinnon sold these throwaways - the San Fernando Valley Times, Los Angeles Aircralt Times, Long Beach Shipyard Times (they had grossed $700,000 in ads in 1942) 1942)-and 1942)-and moved to San Diego where he set up the triweekly Progress-Progress-Journal...
...Although some critics regard Dewey as an opportunist who jumped on the internationalist bandwagon after the horses were in full gallop, he was never really an "isolationist." He concedes: "Certainly I have changed my views on foreign policy. Everyone has." But he favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...
Lack of downfield blocking kept the Jayvees from a second victory over Exeter Saturday as they held the Exonians outside of the 40-yard line except for one 79-yard gallop that tied up the score...
...Henie's sister. She's only mildly disgusting, since all she screams for is for Sister Sonia to marry someone so she can sink her hooks into a high-voiced young Icelander who looks like something the WAACS would probably be glad to have. Of course, both of them gallop over the worn visage of poor Holloway...
...Kyser is a pretty fair orchestra leader. Harold Lloyd was a very funny comedian. But when Kyser drops his baton and tries to gallop along in Loyd's footsteps, he's not only a horribly un-funny comedian, but an anemic imitation of an orchestra leader as well...