Word: restedness
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Dawn seeped over Manhattan. The Dewey headquarters, which Republicans had expected to be the scene of a joyous celebration, was a shambles. Twenty exhausted bitter-enders slumped amidst the overturned chairs, crumpled newspapers, and half-empty highball glasses full of cigarette butts. The last chance now rested with Illinois and...
In East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her...
On Sunday, the candidate rested. He went to Christ Episcopal Church, where he once sang in the choir. His authoritative baritone rang out clearly above the rest of the voices in the congregation. Afterwards he rode back to his mother's comfortable, old-fashioned house on Oliver Street and...
The sovereign Dominions were not formally bound to act together. In 1911, every one of "the old Dominions" (and the mother country) had rejected a proposal binding them to concerted action in defense and foreign relations. Their union rested on like-mindedness, on "kingship and kinship," on a common heritage...
One day last week, the Sacred Cow (once President Truman's personal plane) landed in Athens. Out stepped Secretary of State George Marshall, who had left his wearisome business in Paris to have a look into the even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a...