Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Murray was through, the delegates leaped to their feet and cheered loud & long. But it was not unanimous. Grumbled one rescindist after the final vote: "Hell, we haven't even got collective begging, let alone collective bargaining...
...nobody can say that Lamar kids haven't a lot of enterprise and ingenuity. The kids lost money. Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
...York looked different then. I think the buildings looked taller, but maybe it's because I was shorter." She teamed up with her oldtime dancing partner Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson to do a shim-sham-shimmy before 50,000 in Central Park. Exclaimed modest Miss Temple: "I haven't done this since I was seven, so excuse me if I'm not so hot." Said Robinson: "Honey, you haven't done this since you were four. So it's going to be sensational...
...broke down; hot water heater tubes burned out; stanchions and hooks cracked off; flight decks extended so far forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...disease, he found that polio victims had a subnormal amount of salt in their blood. Previous studies have pointed out that the disease seems to attack particularly healthy youngsters after strenuous summer athletics-when they would presumably have sweated out a lot of salt. His tentative conclusion: if you haven't enough salt in your system, you may be an easier victim of polio...