Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read himself out of the Democratic Party, leaving Truman no choice but to fire him. The proCommunists did not realize at first what had happened, because Wallace in his speech also lightly rapped Russia; they booed him for that. But by all the evidence, Moscow, more prescient, sensed the prize within its grasp and ordered the U.S. Communists to seize him. Quickly the peace front corrected its faulty line and hailed its new-found hero...
...Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
Last week's most important art show was held not in a museum or gallery but at a county fair. In the French Riviera village of Vallauris, prize examples of the town's two industries, perfume and pottery, were on exhibition, and among the pottery makers, between Pernin and Picault in the catalogue, stood the name of a newcomer-Pablo Picasso...
...even the basement office did not keep Acme from being scooped on a prize picture of the G.O.P. Convention. When Tom Dewey slipped away to the garden party given by the Pennsylvania Railroad's M. W. Clement for the leading Republican candidates, the Acme photographer covering Dewey was busy changing his shirt...
Only once is there a mention in the book of the sweat that most reporters distill trying to find words to fit their big news. Charles A. Lindbergh handed a scoop and a Pulitzer prize to old friend Lauren ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times when he sailed into exile (1935) after his baby was kidnaped. All afternoon, Lyman sweated over 13 different leads before, in desperation, he settled on a routine Times lead, such as he had written a thousand times...