Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pennsylvania's Congressman Francis Walter promptly began drafting a bill to provide what had always been assumed before: that Congress can run its business the way it pleases. Supreme Court decisions, groused Walter, echoing a former justice, are getting to be "like excursion tickets-good for one day only...
...began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
Shop on K Street. But when they had finished, several points did stand out like stumps in a clearing. One of these was the stark evidence of the State Department documents which Chambers had had in his possession. On the basis of an FBI expert's testimony (never challenged by the defense) they had been typed on the Hisses' old Woodstock typewriter...
...appoint someone to fill the post temporarily, a special fall election must be held to elect a Senator to fill out Wagner's term. New Yorkers were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself, but wouldn't yet say whom he had in mind (one possible choice: Republican Foreign Policy Adviser John Foster Dulles). On the Democratic side, there was immediate talk of the party's wonder boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Tall, shapely Brenda Allen had just about everything a girl needed to become a successful prostitute. A teetotaler with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...