Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worried Republican Party which itself up off the mat again on election night and ruefully surveyed the returns. The Democrats had won again - in the only Congressional Districts in contest, in the big cities, in upstate New York towns which had been safely Republican for years. Most important, the Democrats won back the crucial Senate seat in New York, which both parties had accepted in advance as the first real 1949 test of Harry Truman's Fair Deal line...
...freshman team will consist of: Paul Judy, Arlen Adams, John Kimball, Jim Little, Goody Cooke, Tom Edwards, Guido Perers, Chuck Boit, Bill Blumenthal, Mat Scanlan, Bob Swaney, and John De Botynkops. The freshmen will run 3.2 miles...
...City. First of the "nonproductive" elements to be driven from the city would be its ragged, half-starved refugees. Through three years of civil war they had fled before the Red tide, which had finally caught up with them. They had funneled into the city to set up dirty, mat-shed colonies. They had lived by begging or scratching in garbage piles. Already, said Communist authorities, 400,000 refugees had left the city-half "voluntarily," the remainder "sent." Still to go were more than 1,000,000 refugee landowners, "loafers" or petty black-marketeers, paupers, unemployed factory hands and dismissed...
...West sued Manhattan's Hotel Chatham for $250,000; she wanted compensation, she said, for the broken ankle suffered in a nasty fall on a bath mat last February. Mae claimed the injury has kept her show, Diamond Lil, closed for nearly five months, and hence kept her from getting a $3,000-a-week salary...
Family Circles. In Leeds, England, Robert Davies got a divorce after he charged that his wife pulled the bath mat from under his feet while he was shaving. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Calogera Cassaro, suing for divorce after 64 years of marriage, charged that although her 86-year-old husband is ablebodied, lately he has been living "in idleness, profligacy and dissipation...