Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Mon Wallgren (a close friend of Harry Truman's), to Illinois Senator Scott Lucas (geographically bad), to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (whom F.D.R. had listed alongside of Harry Truman as an acceptable running-mate in 1944). By convention time President Harry Truman would undoubtedly narrow the field to working size. Meanwhile Democratic headquarters was jubilant. Snorted one wheelhorse: "Six months ago everybody was running for President; now everyone is running for Vice President...
...grey and grimy harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef...
...ripping off the Gay Nineties brass button and black leather effects at Locke Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take out the old-fashioned, unupholstered, narrow booths. But John Cocoris, immaculate, white-haired, and clear-eyed, a prominent Bostonian, member of countless committees, sometimes called "the King of the Greeks," did not make his fortune by accident. He knows that the Athens without its atmosphere would be like a ship without a sail...
...suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...Washington, David E. Lilienthal said that he probably would not have been confirmed if the press had not been "overwhelmingly fair, decent, independent and above narrow partisanship...