Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daddy." A Matching Program. Thomas Le-Roy Collins' grandfather, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, came to Florida from Texas around 1870, died in a pulpit near Tallahassee. The governor's father ran a small grocery, later a wholesale grocery business. He did not have enough money to send his children to college, but he promised to match, dollar for dollar, whatever they earned and saved. "He was years ahead of Roosevelt," says Governor Collins, who deals these days with federal-state-aid fund-matching programs...
...single document in the stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather...
...told Kirk that if I do it, it won't be a gag. I'll really take the beard off. They're liable to send me back to the barber business if this keeps up." Como lives a relaxed home life at Sands Point, L.I., where, except for golf, his main preoccupation is his wife Roselle (they were married 23 years ago in Pennsylvania) and his three children (two of whom are adopted). Most evenings he lies on a green couch in his den, munching apples and pears and watching television...
Lynch isn't quite sure that the engine will make it all the way to Kenosha on the first try, but he vowed that "we'll send the rescue squad after the old pumper if she breaks down, and another engine to get the kids to Kenosha. It's Wisconsin or bust on this trip...
...engine was damaged earlier this year as it skidded around a corner on the way to a fire. The driver and another fireman were seriously injured in the crash, but the engine suffered only body damage. The City Council voted on Monday to send the machine to its manufacturer--the Pirsch Company in Kenosha--for repairs...