Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile and a gift for "getting out the vote." Along the way he quietly decided that the machine needed a great deal of remodeling...
...just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
...Francisco fate struck another terrible blow. Doctors found that Gertrude Hornbostel had contracted leprosy. Except for World War II, the Hornbostels had never been separated since their marriage on Guam in 1913. Major Hornbostel made an instant decision. When his wife was sent to the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., he went with her. He prepared to stay for life, settled down near the hospital grounds. The aging couple spent a great part of every day together...
Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...
Franks put on a show they have never forgotten: he talked for 2½ hours on the whole European recovery program without notes, pause or repetition...