Word: goed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast . . . The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years...
...scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
...White Russian emigrès who had become Soviet citizens in 1946, when Stalin granted an "amnesty" to the White refugee colonies in China, France and Yugoslavia. The Russians had given Soviet passports to thousands of emigres, who, although antiCommunist, were tired of life in exile and wanted to go back to Russia, but Moscow had held up the actual entry permits, used them as bait to force some of the emigres to work for Soviet foreign agents. That, apparently, was what had happened to the twelve accused...