Word: run
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District...
...years at Boston's corruption-laced City Hall, City Clerk John B. Hynes had learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and Democratic), and he harbored little love for the shopworn, sticky-fingered machine of Mayor James Michael Curley...
...Chinese Communists. It would like to do so in concert with the British, who hope that by establishing "normal" relations with Red China they can safeguard Hong Kong, along with their other colonial and commercial interests in the Far East. But, unexpectedly, Secretary of State Dean Acheson has run into stiff opposition from President Truman...
Trumbull ran off the same pattern again in the fourth quarter to wrap up the game for the Elis. Dudley's Dave Gilbert set up the Commuter score with a 40 yard end run, then heaved a 30 yard pass to Bill Monteith, who went over standing...
...longer the best. This year we are nowhere near the best, as has been made painfully clear in Cambridge as well as New Haven by some good teams and some that are not so good. But whenever we get together the game comes alive: slow men run fast, fast men just plain take off. Harvard-Yale games are never dull, and this one--with both teams emphasizing offense--will be busy enough for all but the masochists...