Word: haze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political experts long since revised the wheeze, "As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation." (James A. Farley's revision: "As Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont.") This year, scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched...
...flash of heliograph signals in the North Sea haze and the speaking of great naval guns, the world has lately read a certain statement about the British Empire. That statement is scarcely final in the fog of war, but it gives point to such books as Adams' and Muggeridge...
...days later, with Boise's depot chimes echoing through the gloomy haze of a heavy snowfall, all that was mortal of William E. Borah, late a U. S. Senator, was committed to the Idaho earth...