Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inevitably, in a story like this, much detail had to be eliminated...
...81st in action looked like a chart of atoms at work; particles were constantly breaking off from one nucleus to join another. Judging by the first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
...most of the week the House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...
...without them (TIME, March 14). Budapest-born Gwen Cafritz, as a matter of fact, had never even quite made the grade with the hostess whose evening slippers she hopes to fill. Gwen was never invited to Perle's parties, although Perle received several invitations from Gwen. Washington gossips like to say that when Perle took a house not far from the Cafritzes, Gwen promptly phoned her, said: "Now that you're a neighbor, I suppose I'll be seeing more of you." Replied Perle: "I suppose...
...some operators it seemed like a good idea, but the big Northern bloc did not agree. Efficient operators would be unfairly penalized, they argued. Beyond that, their connivance might put them in violation of the antitrust laws...