Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nervousness - possibly pusillanimity. Petrillo, who gave up smoking a year ago, suddenly started chainsmoking at the House Labor Committee hearings (see cut). Said he: "I didn't start smokin' till the day of the investigation and I'm still dizzy. Still smokin'. I'm gonna quit tomorrow...
...m curious to know how many TIME readers, while digesting (no humor intended) the Cornell report on Cannibalism and English Columnist Nat Gubbins' subsequent play [TIME, Jan. 19], were struck by its remarkable similarity in concept to Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, a satire written over two centuries ago and incited by the starving conditions in Ireland at that time...
Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan...
...education, saved most of the rest. He bought his mother a fur coat, paid for two operations she needed. Once in a while, his mother still worked as a scrubwoman. "It's not the money," she explained in her broken English. "I'm just lonesome for my friends." At 39, Joe was beginning to grey at the temples. He gradually lost some of his shyness, cracked an occasional joke...
...strategy seemed to be paying off. Before the week was out, Governor Charles M. Dale and Manchester's Joseph E. Geisel, an early Eisenhower organizer, had both come out for Dewey. Deweymen talked confidently of winning at least five of New Hampshire's eight convention delegates, hoped to make a clean sweep...