Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stryker leaned back and closed his eyes, trying hard to look bored. Before long he was sitting forward, listening closely. "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion," Murphy began quietly. "You can't say 'I don't like the guy, I don't like the way he combs his hair, and I wouldn't believe him on a stack of Bibles.' You have to apply reason...
Andy Sheridan was a tough guy from Manhattan's brawling East Side, as tough as his father had been before him. When Andy was eight, a neighborhood kid threw caustic in his face, damaging his eyes and giving his face a permanent squint. When he was twelve, his old man hauled him into New York's Children's Court and charged him with stealing his watch. The court sent "Squint" Sheridan to the Catholic Protectory for a year...
...Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series. After the sportwriters ran out of superlatives, all the great DiMaggio could do was grin...
...papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail), Harry Guy Bartholomew (Daily Mirror) and 17 other witnesses, studied financial reports, and thumbed through sheafs of clippings...
Jackie is a real gone guy...