Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
...Sure, I want to be governor," bellowed Louisiana's greying, gravel-voiced Earl Long. "Only one person in more'n two million people can be governor of this state. Think about that. Ain't that an honor? And then every time you go to the door of the mansion somebody's bringing you a turkey or a ham or a basket of something. I like that free stuff...
...mile Alaska Highway, now an all-weather (gravel) road from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska, was finally opened to tourists. Among new accommodations: public camping grounds (with fresh water and cooking stoves) in the 600-mile stretch through Yukon Territory. Canada's advice to tourists: make reservations early (inns are few & far between) or bring camping equipment...
Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
Then the big C.I.O labor unions were heard from. The powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which, under the late Sidney Hillman, was the bulwark of New York's American Labor Party (and still is), said it wanted no part of a third party. So did gravel-voiced Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union...