Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishinsky banged the table. "It isn't fair!" he blustered. "He must have prepared this statement for just such an opportunity!" As a matter of fact, Cooke had done just that. His speech was one of the rare examples of Western preparation for a propaganda battle...
...mama," said the boy. "It's Babe Ruth himself, isn't it?" "You'll be all right, kid," said the great Babe...
...People tell me I didn't look bad. But usually, all the girls end up looking like Wallace Beery." The exception was 50-year-old Bea Lillie, who appeared on the television screen to be both young and beautiful. Miss Lillie's delicate moral reservation about television: "Isn't it going to cause a lot of drinking in the home...
Even for Tennessee, the campaign was rough. Boss Crump alienated countless voters by his unrestrained use of invective. He spent $18,000 a day for huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...