Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck for a big registration in 1950, to avoid the off-year election slump that usually hits the party in power. Says Boyle: "A big registration never worries me. I know there are more Democrats than there are Republicans...
...Practically everybody I know is a 'liberal.' At least that's what they call themselves," a reader in Bethel, Conn, wrote last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern...
Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...
...president of one Square department store explained the air of uncertainty which was characteristic of all the local retailers. "Two and two makes four," he said, "but nobody seems to know what two and two are these days. There are just too many factors such as taxes, wages, and cost of materials to consider...
...decides to execute a "mercy killing," and one night deliberately wrecks the automobile in which he and his wife are driving. Immediately after, he confesses the entire crime and is brought into court. His plea of "guilty" collapses when his counsel unexpectedly proves that in reality Catherine Cooke did know of her illness, and had died by her own hand before the time of the accident...