Word: quids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perennial, hay-whiskered, quid-chompin William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 72, onetime (1932-35) Governor of Oklahoma, announced himself a candidate for Senator, said he would make two or three speeches a day "if I receive donations for campaign expenses sufficient to hire a driver to carry me from place to place...
...State Department agent explained the situation. U.S. diplomats and newsmen are hibernating in corresponding comfort at Bad Nauheim in central Germany, pending exchange. In this war without honor, unlike World War I, the only way of insuring good treatment of U.S. diplomats caught in enemy territory is by strictly quid pro quo treatment. Said William Perry, Mayor of White Sulphur Springs: "We . . . are happy to have this privilege of doing our part during the war crisis...
...that Latin America wanted from its big Good Neighbor Uncle Sam last week was a little more quid for its quo. Latin America had just cause for complaint: while the American republics were shipping to the U.S. nearly all of their strategic raw materials, the U.S. had so far failed to send them enough manufactured goods to get along...
...came out of Mem Hall after your signatory ordeal feeling that you had wasted your fin (a quid to you limeys) on a Student Council donation, rest easy; it won't be wasted...
...Quid-chompin' "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: "If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself...