Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This morning on this sandy beach, where nipa huts lean crazily, columns of Filipinos began to pass by. Their clothes were patched and the gay colors faded, but in their faces was dignity above any other native race we have encountered...
Dopesters, pollsters, pundits, bigwigs, wardheelers-all shapes & sizes of political wiseacres-were now getting phenomenally nervous. By all counts this was one of the queerest, bitterest-and closest-of all the Presidential races in U.S. history. So dead certain were all the experts that the race would be neck-&-neck that a comfortable victory by either candidate would make political expertism indefinitely suspect. And the polls were indecisive-if they showed anything it was that Dewey had drawn nearly level since midsummer. (Only the gamblers saw it as 3-to-1 for Roosevelt, and not much money was being...
Back to New York after a month of campaigning all over the U.S. came good grey Norman Thomas, Socialist Presidential candidate ever since 1928. Norman Thomas said two things: 1) "I am gloomy about both candidates," and 2) this was the hardest Presidential race to judge of any of the five...
With belated but well verified credit for a 28th kill which he had made before he left the theater, Bong's two kills last week brought his total to 30. In the great U.S. ace race, Dick Bong was out in front again...
...nonsmoker, he works off his pent-up energy in little restless gestures and movements, like a race horse...