Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle lines were drawn. Behind Gabrielson were ex-Willkieites Ralph Cake of Oregon and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, hard-shelled ex-Chairmen Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, Minnesota's indefatigable Stassenite Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger. Behind Dewey were many Westerners who resented the idea of a Wall Streeter in the chairmanship. Also behind Dewey was old Joe Grundy...
...little Ovida ("Cricket") Coogler was a product of New Mexico's political corruption. Her world did not include the Southwest's fabled wide-open spaces. Cricket had been a barfly since she was 14. She had her good points-she helped support her widowed mother and worked hard as a waitress. But, like many another teenager, she was chiefly interested in excitement, romance and escape from throttling poverty...
...When a hard-pressed cattleman commented, "La Frutera's rainmaker is capturing our clouds with a net!" many were inclined to agree that some kind of cloud-rustling was indeed going on. Local newspapers ran cartoons that showed Pilot Silverthorne as an airborne cowboy herding clouds with a lariat...
John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...
...conscience of red-haired Larry Gara, like that of many another Christian, has led him down a hard & lonely road. When World War II began, it prompted him to refuse to register for the draft. Quaker Gara went to jail, spent three years there...