Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shiny new Shamrock hotel was only one week old when Elson, Griffith and Johnson put up there for the night after lunching with Governor Beauford Jester in Austin. Owner McCarthy met them in the Shamrock's mirrored and muraled Cork Club the next day, where they talked while workmen wheeled slatted crates containing the unmounted heads of prize steers-McCarthy's latest trophies - through the upholstered premises. Ex-Wildcatter McCarthy, a lively man even by Texas standards seemed somewhat tired. He had been up most of the night fighting an oil well fire...
Louisiana's Dixiecrat Congressman F. Edward Hebert put it in language any politician could understand. "So the proposition is very clear," he said on the House floor "Your vote is for sale for a job or jobs." It was a blunt denunciation of the price tag Harry Truman had put on political patronage (see above...
...Mayor Moore, who is also the city magistrate, "we'll appeal. We'll get an injunction. We'll get everyone in Electra down to the station blowing whistles. We'll get a cowboy singer and have him give them an adenoid solo. We'll put up stoplights at the railroad crossings and make the trains obey them-if they break the law I'll fine...
Jawaharlal Nehru. Their talk, as one of them put it, often bordered on theological metaphysics. Finally, a satisfactory formula was found. It provided that India would indeed be an independent sovereign republic, but that she would nevertheless accept "the King as the symbol of the free association of [the Commonwealth's] independent member nations...
...toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that his more modern-minded countrymen were staring at him. Deeply embarrassed, he checked himself in mid-bow, pretended that he was merely scratching his head, and put his hat back on. Then he shyly disappeared into the crowd...