Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counter Poke. But Politician Truman would surely have another Republican tax bill on his desk in 1948. His budget review got a rough reception by Republicans. The surplus, said New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was proof that "the country was robbed of a tax reduction by purely political votes." Notably lacking was any Democratic cheering over the tax outlook. Said one close friend of Politician Truman: "His neck is too far out for an election year. He's got guts, that's sure, but I'm sorry he said...
...some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin' a girl out is all part of nature," mused the rough-hewn Governor. ". . . And I'm a man who likes to get close to nature...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...
...When rough & ready Robert S. Allen hopped off the "Washington Merry-Go-Round" five years ago and went to war, Partner Drew Pearson wrote a sentimental prophecy: "I shall miss Bob, but . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old 'Merry-Go-Round.'" Few Washington newsmen would have bet on it, for the famed team of inside dopesters had been notoriously cold toward each other. When Allen came home in 1945, he was in no hurry to get back to the old stand. For more than six months...
...Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being temporarily deafened by his engine, but not bleeding at nose & mouth, as drivers sometimes do after a bumpy, rough-water race...