Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell was in Omaha examining the Nebraska senatorial race when Chicago telephoned to pick up UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia in Fargo, N.Dak., before noon the next day. After badgering two airlines into getting him there, sleepless, by 5:30 a.m., he was on hand to meet LaGuardia at the airport, rescue his hat from the prairie wind, and go with him to Climax, Minn. Bell managed to catch a few hours' sleep in the sample room of a local hotel...
...search for a new home was drawing more attention than a horse race. As the entries went to the post last week, bookies tried to figure the odds...
...Under no circumstances," he roared, "shall the Soviet delegation go to San Francisco!" His reason: too far from Moscow. Sputtering protests, he shouted that the U.S. had rigged the race, that the whole thing was a U.S. plot to thwart the London decision of the General Assembly -which had limited the search to the eastern U.S. Comrade Saksin insisted on entering New York's Flushing Meadow, which had not even been listed on the subcommittee's program...
...Ohio he soon won a name as a man with the community on his mind. Besides his ministering, Dr. Baker put in long extracurricular hours on welfare, race and labor problems for public and private agencies. Clevelanders warmed up to his quiet but intense manner, rated him a hard worker...
...destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...