Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the flat-topped table, flopped in the black leather chairs, shuffled over to the water cooler, loaded ashtrays with mountains of smoldering cigaret butts. Alben Barkley, squinting through the humid haze scribbled down the endless formulae of possible compromise. Around the corner, in the office of Senate Secretary Les Biffle,' OPAdministrator Paul Porter waited...
...halfway point, warmed up at last, Strand let out. His white kangaroo-skin shoes seeming scarcely to touch the ground, he swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...
Reporters remembered that the Alfalfa Club was having its annual summer picnic at Frederick that day. They called the estate of former Ohio Representative Joseph H. Himes. Sure enough, the President, Charlie Ross and Senate Secretary Les Biffle were all on hand, hobnobbing with their 200 fellow club members (Washington officials, businessmen, newsmen...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...time was. (Like Glenn Cunningham, he races against himself.) He ran, as usual, with both palms up, fingers curled -as though he were holding a glass of water in each hand. At the finish Strand was yards in front, unhurried, and two-tenths of a second off Les MacMitchell's meet record of 3:51.4. He might not run the four-minute mile at the San Antonio A.A.U. championships this month, but U.S. tracksters already regarded him with brooding respect. Hägg's rabbit would be hard to beat...