Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these reasons added up to the one big reason-the voters' distrust of the Republican Party as mirrored in the 80th Congress, a distrust which Tom Dewey's promises of efficient government had never been able to erase...
...insisted on more help to the sagging government of China. "Next January," Chinese had told themselves, "will be the turning point." Last week, as Nanking read the bitter bulletins from Manchuria and the north (see FOREIGN NEWS), it received a depressing dispatch from Washington: "There is little reason to believe that President Truman's astonishing victory will affect greatly the Democratic administration's existing China policy...
Dazed but unrepentant, Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan began and ended a piece by asking with a silly smirk: "Wha' Hoppened?" The Alsop brothers, who had considerably more reason to ask, airily wired their editors that "these particular reporters prefer their crow fricasseed...
...what looked like an easier- assignment. Ten to 15 hours later, haggard and unshaven, he staggered away from one of the biggest and toughest political stories of a generation. The cub did a so-so job for a beginner, but nothing like the whiz-bang Philadelphia performance. The chief reason: the. conventions were shows that a TV camera could get its eye on, but an election, even an eye-opener like, this one, offered nothing much to look...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...