Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damnable!" cried the outraged Tennessean. Mr. Wallace hastily withdrew the remark. But the damage was done. An offended Senate crushed Mr. Wallace's ruling (46 to 17), then pressed on to pass the bill along McKellar lines. TVA's hopes rested on the House...
...atque Vale. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Undertaker Ottavio Caratozzollo delivered his granddaughter, a glb. girl, a few feet from the embalmed body of Frank Lo-Verso, whose favorite remark had been, "When I die, a baby will be born to take my place." Copstretician. In Manhattan, Patrol man Francis Devlin, in his 19th year on the force, delivered his sixth baby...
...bombers could never get at them in force again. One of the reasons was Britain's radiolocation system, the other its big, trigger-itchy night fighter force. But twice last week bombers pierced London's bristling ack-ack defenses, bombed London and provoked from Winston Churchill the remark: "It's quite like old times again." But it differed from old times in that very little military damage was done and fires were far apart and confined...
Asked a correspondent: "Are you willing or ready to use General Sherman's remark that 'I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected...
...Oxie his dream man. His staff looks on Lane as a dream city editor, who came up the hard way. Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...