Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual or new in the current situation in Washington. This sort of thing is going on all the time. Some people go wrong and are fired. Oh, the trouble may be a little higher up in some places now, but a look at the record will show that there isn't any more...
...York Times's William Lawrence asked the logical question: "If it isn't anything new or unusual or any great numbers involved, why then are you even considering extraordinary action?" The real reason, replied Truman, is to show that the vast majority of Government employees are honest...
...investment. In making the killing, he was dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...
Stuempfig shuns modern experiments, keeps a reproduction of a Corot in his studio, and constantly combs his own neighborhood for moving, nostalgic subjects. Asked why his landscapes so often look sad, he replies: "Maybe it's because even the landscape isn't safe any more, what with these new turnpikes and everything...
Guess Who I Am (backed.by Guess What I Am) makes a pleasant children's game out of identification of animals, is sung by the Melodeons. Another good record in "Uncle Leo's Records for Young Folks" series (MGM) is Frosty the Snow Man (backed by Isn't It a Shame that Christmas Comes but Once a Year), done to a turn by carborundum-voiced Jimmy Durante...