Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record and was to last 15 minutes. When he was ushered into the general's office on the Columbia University campus, Gissen shook hands and said: "Well, general, the last time I saw you we were both covered with mud." Eisenhower wanted to know where that was and when. Gissen recalled a scene in France in November, 1944 when he and other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village of Benestroff. "It was wretched," said Gissen, "everything and everybody was covered with mud, and even the 4th Armored Division's tanks had bogged down...
...traveling around the country last fall," he said. "I may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country. If I get on that train, I'm going to tell the people how their Government is getting along-and I know how to tell them...
...Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for some 30 of her 64 years...
...stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan, the loudmouthed lifetime boss (at$20,000 a year) of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Some of the hoods hold cards...
...minority who wish to eat less than the average 16 meals weekly. Those who think it would be cheaper to eat all their meals at beaneries around the Square might prove their point only at the risk of ptomaine poisoning or malnutrition, while men who eat at clubs know that the contract saving of 25 cents on 14 meals would not stretch very far for their seven non-contract meals, nor the $2.25 saving for 14 non-contract meals...