Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more characteristic mood, even while maintaining his official if-I-decide-to-try line, he looks eagerly to the brawls ahead. Says he: "Nobody is going to hand me the nomination. If I were governor of a large state, Protestant and 55, I could sit back and let it come to me. But if I am going to get it, I'll have to work for it-and damn hard...
...football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above all, don't suggest any plays, even if you played quarterback at school. The Kennedys have the signal-calling department sewed up, and all of them have A-pluses in leadership. Run madly on every play, and make...
...Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother of a war hero and a Congressman, the wife of an ambassador, the daughter of a mayor and Congressman, the daughter-in-law of a state senator and representative. She's beautiful and she's a Kennedy. Let me have her." Powers got her, and in the last weeks Rose Kennedy traveled Massachusetts, carrying with her a complete change of wardrobe, from simple blouses and skirts for union halls to evening gowns and jewels for swankier places. While Ike was carrying Massachusetts by 208,000 votes, the Democratic...
...campaign to propagandize the refugees on behalf of the United Nations in general and the U.S. in particular. The main line of exposition: You are obviously better off than before. The Communists want to turn you over to the Russians, and nobody knows how the Russians would be. Let's give the Americans a chance to show what they...
...announcing this today, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty let newsmen know that the President is in the recuperating stages from last Monday's minor stroke, even though he is reported making steady progress toward recovery...