Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry. At week's end, Sam Rayburn dropped in for a couple of days, and kept himself carefully covered to avoid getting sunburned. The President gave him a sport shirt (coffee-colored with figures of cranes and palm fronds) and took a walk with him down the beach. As Sam left, he told reporters that the country had nothing to worry about. "I don't see anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will...
...shone warmly on the coral beaches. At night, the cool trade wind whispered through the palm trees. Harry Truman loafed. In the shaded seclusion of Key West's submarine base, surrounded by his loyal lieutenants and faithful friends, the victor rested after the battle. It was a fine feeling...
...through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...prices. (Toymakers have doubled production in cheap lines.) There are such ingenious gadgets as: 1 "Juggle-head" ($1.98), a magnetic head which can be given different faces by sticking on various types of noses, hair, ears, etc.; 2) a mechanical monkey ($1.98) that harvests coconuts from a palm tree; 3) a toy "electric" shaver...
...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...