Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
...Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
Arrangement with Peters. Bit by bit during previous congressional hearings, Alger Hiss had admitted knowing Chambers more than just casually as a magazine writer around Washington; finally he had admitted giving Chambers, his wife and daughter temporary haven in his home. Now Chambers reconstructed again a story of close intimacy between the two families, adding new details, recounting trips he had taken with the Hisses...
...Abolition of "double pricing," i.e., the practice now common in many Western European countries of selling commodities at low prices at'home, while selling them abroad for all the traffic will bear...
...holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...