Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a light lunch (V8 juice, salad, milk), the candidate sprawled on a couch in the green-walled, flower-choked living room of the Roosevelt's Suite 1527-29, relaxed and confident. As he has every election night of his career, he and his family dined at the home of Roger Straus, banker and longtime Dewey adviser. Then, flanked by his wife, his two sons, his mother (who had come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow...
...hungry Manhattan, the 10% rule of thumb was as dead as the nickel fare. Three trade associations threw some light on the going rates: 15% on restaurant checks; 20% to 25% on cab fares; 25? for bellhops (two bags). A shine was 15?-plus...
Last night the team showed better timing on running plays, but the artificial light, as usual slowed down the passing drill...
Sunlight struck Vag full in the face and chased him under a pillow. Groping for air, he edged out from under his feathery bunker only to meet the day again. He spun and twisted his way under the sheets but they rolled with him; the light searched out his eyelids, wrestled with them and forced them open. Vag was awake...
...Network will devote its entire radio time to the election. Between returns it will play light classical music. The broadcast is under the direction of Hartford Gunn...