Word: rubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
Recently Becky began to rub her eyes alot. The Haires took her first to a pediatrician, then to an eye specialist, who called in eight others. Their verdict: Becky's ears, not her eyes, had followed her mother's movements. Becky had been born blind, apparently with cancer...
...Rub your heels in the sand-hard-to make them smooth...
...after the whites find out that the color doesn't rub off," said a Negro sergeant at the Air Force's big Lackland base at San Antonio. There, under the Air Force's 13-month-old policy of nondiscrimination, Negroes and whites had been sleeping in the same barracks, eating at the same mess tables, dancing at the same service clubs, using the same swimming pools. Last week, in broader terms and in careful officialese, President Truman's committee on discrimination reported a surprising amount of quiet progress in all the armed forces...
...Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury, somewhat flabbergasted at what it had learned, made public an interim report of its findings...