Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filibuster fight was hard for most people to understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming to a vote. The filibustering...
...lobby gows in the late Sol Bloom's 20th district on Manhattan's West Side put on their derbies last week and paid angry calls on Tammany Chieftain Hugo Rogers. Sol Bloom's district was good Democratic territory, and they had several deserving Tammany candidates for old Sol's job. They had had the place to themselves until a good-looking young lawyer from Long Island announced for the seat. His name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Once a team gets a man loose, it can put pressure on the defense, sometimes forcing a defender to switch to the free ball-carrier (see cut below), sometimes scoring on a quick shot past a man screening the goalie's view...
...educators put David E. Lilienthal and Albert Einstein at the head of their list. President Conant ranked sixth...
Ninety-seven misplaced ballots, which turned up a week after the installation, had reversed the first decision and put another candidate in the office of treasurer. Miss O'Brien refused to accept the post of sub-treasurer offered her by the Student Government executive board, and an entire revote was called...