Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
...Among current strikes, it is the nation's third longest. The strike at J. I. Case Co.'s plant in nearby Racine is four months older; that of Mack Truck Manufacturing Corp. workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is three days older...
...Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing...
...still be solid. The southwest, claims of insurgent Democrats withal, will string along with tears in its eyes. And the balance in the east will not be fundamentally altered. Joe Guffey seems to be the major Democratic loss in this area, whereas landslide Republican gains throughout New York, New Jersey and New England are based as much on the fact that people guess that the Democrats are this year's "outs," as on a clear analysis of partisanship. Lehman of New York and McGrath of Rhode Island are favored to retain their hold. The story is much the same...
...squad who now rates a major H. Captain Frank Gurley and John Cogan followed in the fourth and firth spots. When the placing was broken down according to the three way dual count the blues had beaten the Varsity 24 to 31 and downed the men from New Jersey, 19 to 38. The Mikkola barriers tallied 19 to Princeton...