Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger Slaughter is a well-fed, middle-aged (40), second-term Democratic Congressman who used to live a couple of blocks from Harry Truman in Independence, Mo. In his 'teens, he got out and rang doorbells in behalf of Truman for County Judge. As a Kansas City lawyer-politician, he stumped long and loyally for Truman for U.S. Senator...
...looks as though the Russians are there to stay." In Pyongyang, the Soviet capital, street corners, schools and shops were literally plastered with banners proclaiming the virtues of the Soviet system, the Red Army, and "General" Kim II Sung, the Soviet puppet leader. At night Pyongyang streets rang with rifle shots...
Finally, at 11:30, the big bell rang. After the delay, trading (in old futures at the new ceilings) was even more lively than usual. By week's end, all grain prices were up to their new ceilings at Chicago and the luckless "shorts" stood to lose their shirts. The Cargill suit was still pending. Robert Buckley (suspended from trading on a technicality) was still fighting mad and might go to court again. Nobody was selling confusion short...
Only two months ago he rang doorbells in Los Angeles. One matron complained that a competitor's soap wouldn't suds-up properly. Luckman, who thought it a good soap, challenged this. So he was hauled into the kitchen, made to roll up his sleeves and find out for himself. The woman was right. Her parting crack: "Young man, you have a lot to learn about the soap business...
...seconds later it was anything but. Shots rang out. and we ducked behind a steel door in the restaurant. One shot went through the restaurant window, others took stone hunks off the building. As soon as I could get back to a peeking position, I saw several people being taken away in wagons. Others lay on the ground...