Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no knowledge of campaigning and little understanding of issues, gentle, bewildered Mrs. Coffey had been thrust into the race by the district's ambitious Democratic boss, flashy, dark-eyed John R. Torquato. Torquato's organization had upset the dominant Republicans hst November by sending War Hero Bob Coffey to Congress. They did it with the help of the 55,000 union members in the district, nearly half of them mineworkers. They were out to repeat...
State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson. A sign on his desk reads: "The politician thinks about the next election; the statesman thinks about the next generation." Joe was plainly thinking about the next election. Said he: "There ain't nobody going to get me out of this race...
...talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
Last May 17,000 police made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had already arrested his sisters Mariannina and Giuseppina; his mother is locked up on charges of extortion. The dragnet picked up several of his aides...
...novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth; Garson Kanin's The Rat Race...