Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayhap TIME . . . will quiz Bill Boyle, newly elected national chairman of the Party of the People, as to chapter & verse whence came his asserted quotation from Lincoln: "I will go along with a man as. long as he is going in my direction" [TIME, Sept...
...Although he perhaps is not as fleet-footed as Musial on a straightaway course, the old veteran Enos Slaughter, the captain of the team, surely is still the outstanding baserunner of the 1949 Cardinals . . . Stan The Man makes & breaks the fate and fortunes of the Cardinals, but for fleetness on foot where it pays off in the pennant race-that is, around the bases-give me Enos ("Country") Slaughter...
...week's end, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, a hulking, peace-loving man, suggested that they all meet with him in Washington. Taking the amiable view that the disputants just did not understand one another, Ching said optimistically: "There is a good possibility that the argument springs not from irreconcilable, fundamental differences, but from the meaning of words. At any rate, it is my duty to ascertain whether this is the case...
...possible "in the early twenties . . . to hire the recording secretary of the Classical High School debating society-a man whose mordant irony reminded his auditors of Disraeli and Brann the Iconoclast, although he had scarcely turned 16 -to sift your ashes and beat your carpets at 30? an hour. Even I find it almost too fantastic to credit, and, mind you, I was the recording secretary...
Major Operation. In Rochester, Minn, police finally caught up with the man who dressed in a surgeon's gown, visited the hospital floors of the Kahler Hotel, told a patient to roll over, took $374 from his wallet and assured the victim: "Your back looks...