Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reasons for supporting Dewey, said Roper, are a feeling that it's time for a change, that Dewey has proved himself a capable administrator, that he would be able to handle Russia abroad and do a "good, sound, businesslike job" at home. Against him is a dislike of the cold, cocksure Dewey manner, a fear that he is motivated by expediency, and the fact that he has run before and lost. As of last month, when Dewey was riding the crest of his Oregon victory, he could have beaten President Truman by 41% to 34%, would have lost...
...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
...tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...
...Spaghetti Is Cooked." TIME Correspondent Mary Barber watched part of the battle from a brigade command post in Fort Nestorion, overlooking Hill 1291, the day's objective in that sector. Cabled Barber: "Down below, Nestorion's main square was packed with ambulances, trucks and jeeps. In the horse trough near the spring, peasant women were washing out used field dressings and the stained water flowed over the cobblestones. In the church, the village priest was reading the burial service over eight soldiers who had died in the morning's fighting on Hill...
Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...