Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems rather remarkable that the U.S., so jealous in guarding its press freedom, at home and so militant in advocating its extension at international conferences, should be willing to let the murder of George Polk fade into the limbo of unsolved mysteries. Newsmen, some of whom must continue to do their jobs in distant and risky areas, take a very different view...
...price per hundred pounds ever paid for heifers on the open market. Ohioans told a story about a farmer who took a bucketful of money to the bank to pay off an $8,000 mortgage.The teller emptied it, said: "There's $10,000 here." Said the farmer: "I must have brought the wrong bucket...
...electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...
Within the Mukden siege ring the refugees are registered again, inspected again. Since horsecarts are not allowed beyond Kaiyuan, they must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities hustle the travelers on to rugged refugee trains-a sort of slow-moving human cattle car jampacked with unwashed, heartsick bodies...
...gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's must, of necessity, be a member of Hollywood's higher echelons...