Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pray for Grace. Both the CCC and most farmers had been counting on Congress to authorize emergency storage. But it appeared that the 81st Congress, like its predecessor, would not do anything in time to be of much help. The House had passed a conference bill which would let the CCC build more storage facilities, but last week the Senate turned it down, ostensibly on a technicality. (Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas charged it was torpedoed by private grain storage interests...
Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...
...Failure. Last week the grace period expired. The Gloucester school board had tried to float a $300,000 bond issue to build a brand-new Negro high school, but Gloucester County had voted it down. In the court's view, the defendants had failed; Superintendent Kenney and Gloucester County's school-board members were fined $250 apiece...
...next day, back in uniform and full of grace, The Lip walked modestly across the Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...
Swimming: letters: Grace Anthony '49, Virginia Gossard '49, Valentine Loring '52, Patricia McMillin '50, Elizabeth Moses '51, Martha Sherich '51. Numerals: Alice Blum '52, Elinor Gossard '51, Cherry Merit...