Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Princeton's Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy, and the University of Southern California's Professor Gordon Evans Dean, onetime law partner of Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, to fill the existing vacancies on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
Last week, the volcano into which Clay had been throwing stones finally erupted. A federal grand jury indicted A. E. Funk Jr., 27-year-old son of Kentucky's attorney general, and with him his 34-year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard...
After getting whacked across his seamed, mustached face by his partner, Lepe postured pompously. Said he: "How dare you? I'll bring this up at U.N. Maybe you don't know I am Mr. Truman's landlord." The audience slapped its thighs and roared. But Lepe wasn't kidding...
...quarter of a century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . . . a wild, irresponsible kid," he told the Illinois State Parole Board. "I feel that in 25 years I have matured considerably . . . I am not a kid any more." The board reserved decision...
...shoe shop-Astaire proves that at 50 he is still the best all-round heel-totoe man in the business. The rest of The Barkleys proves that Ginger (who, like the heroine she plays, has had her fling as a dramatic actress) is still the best movie dancing partner that Astaire has ever...