Word: howling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
...cozy thought. At worst, He is conversationally embarrassing. There is scarcely any danger that a member of the neighborhood church will, like Job, hear God speak out of the whirlwind (whirlwinds are dangerous), or that he will be moved to dash down the center aisle, crying, like Isaiah: "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish...
Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...
...Hampshire was undefeated in 1947 until beaten by Toledo 20 to 14 in the Glass Howl. In past Crimson competition the Wildcats have fared poorly, losing seven times without a win and totalling only three points. These teams met last...
...signs that the democratic process in China, while not perhaps as up-to-date as that of Kansas City, was not wholly different from it. When the Kuomintang announced this week its list for the Legislative Yuan, old-guard members who were not up for renomination let out a howl of protest. They had fed so long and faithfully at the public trough-and was this to be their reward...