Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flavor has gone from Duffy's mulligan. I always liked Archie [but] I can't say as much for Ed Gardner. How come, he can't pay his share of the taxes like the rest of us . . .? CHUCK ABBOTT Tucson, Ariz...
Profitable Failure. Politically, the White House inner operatives thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost...
...Taft-Hartley law, the 81st Congress was closer political kin to the 80th than it was to Harry Truman. By the touchstone of what his political opponents had said he could or could not achieve, Harry Truman had won quite a bit, though it was not nearly as much as he had asked or as he had promised to get. Said he, perhaps mindful of the do-nothing days of early summer: "You know, I'm happy about the record of Congress. It accomplished more than I expected...
...seem to hurt much at first-only some local twinges of discomfort and worried looks in high places. But by last week, the discomfort had become painfully general. The U.S. economy was slowly suffocating in the tight, unrelenting grip of the first simultaneous nationwide strike in coal and steel...
Osmanski, after much experimenting early in the fall, chose to string along with a batch of sophomores up from an excellent freshman team. However, the second-year men (there will be approximately six of them in the starting lineup) have failed to live up to expectations, although their mistakes appear to have become less conspicuous each week...