Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom Destiny might flick at any moment, the western world knew almost nothing. Most people in the U.S. had never heard his name. Yet he was a man who had devoted all his latter years to a scheme of Asian empire which touched the Russians and the Chinese first of all, but in the close-knit world of 1942 mattered enormously to the U.S. as well. He was a short and flabby man of 57, with protruding cheekbones and a mummy-like skin, who had said of himself: "I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve...
Later on, Fant's death restores America's good name. She still has her moments. She powders the webs of 100,000 Mississippi Bayou spiders with gold and silver dust for a treacherous daughter's highfalutin wedding. But the latter part of Drivin' Woman is an account of the bracing fight of the small tobacco farmers against the Trust. Descriptions of raising, grading, priming and selling tobacco result in a fragment of U.S. social-and-economic history so simple and sound that not even Mrs. Chevalier's panchromatic prose can make it much less...
...short program of five numbers included the familiar Harvard medley and the Navy medley, the latter being particularly popular with the Naval School, and the program was concluded by the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. The band then marched off toward the Music Building again chanting one, two, three, four, to the great amusement of the Naval students...
...friends of the arch-Tory 1922 Committee were hotly angry with him on that account. His motion would allow Prime Minister Churchill to call for a vote on the motion, rather than on dissociating the Prime Ministership and Defense Ministership. However many would vote for the latter, few, if any, would give a flat no-confidence vote to the Churchill Government...
Murph McCarthy, Princeton first baseman who went through the season without making an error would play in the infield of this team, with Clem Yukuavich of Columbia at second; George Hain of Penn at third and Ronnie Stillman of Cornell at short. Hain also received enough votes for the latter position to tie with Stillman, having alternated between the two spots during the season. Baldwin of Princeton, Burns of Dartmouth and Clay of Harvard won the outfield berths