Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...
...delighted tabloid readers a few years ago by starting to run around with married women when he was only 14, was 19 now and getting a new view of home-wrecking. After 18 months of marriage, his wife went home to mother (she still thinks he is a "swell guy"). Sonny Boy considered the situation: "I guess I haven't been as good a husband as I should...
...Will Menninger himself is a convincing explanation of why the public is getting less skittish about psychiatry. Plainly neither a crackpot nor a "foreigner," Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost...
Northwestern's unbeaten, unscored-on footballers nervously pulled on their togs. A sign on the wall in Evanston's Dyche Stadium was meant to be reassuring: "You are as good as the next guy. [He] pulls his pants on one leg at a time, too." It was small comfort: the beef-trusters (up to 250 Ibs.) in the Minnesota dressing room wore much bigger pants...
...practice he had kept telling his all-too-tame Wildcats that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...