Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator, Crump had dumped servile Tom Stewart, a politician with no great vote-getting appeal, in favor of a man with still less: an obscure, hill-country judge named John A. Mitchell. Stung into independence, Stewart ran anyway. But neither candidate was a match for hardworking, respected Congressman Estes Kefauver...
After the match, Oliver told the crowd, "It's very nice of you people to come out and see Hogan play. I also enjoyed it . . . If I play with him a few more times, I'll be a good golfer myself...
...State Automobile Dealers. The dealers, he said, were squirming under a deluge of vituperation from customers forced to buy unwanted "extras." The extras include fog lights, seat covers, lap robes, special steering wheels, powder-puff holders, radios with rear-seat speakers and up to $350 worth of luggage to match the baggage compartment. General Motors and Ford promptly denied that they were adding unordered extras, passed the blame back to the dealers...
...weight around to any effect is the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan, a thoroughly hissable villain). He kills a good Indian in cold blood, murders a reformed she-bandit named Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
...been ordered. The roads that lacked the cash to buy new cars slicked up their old ones. The Central Railroad of New Jersey fitted out four cars in different styles. It got its commuters to choose the style they liked, and is planning to redecorate all its cars to match...