Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes of an important Truman speech. Greenfield wired back: buy the air time, and make it half an hour. When Truman rode through the streets of Philadelphia, short, chubby Albert Greenfield rode with...
Robert Maulden, who took a short lift in a "new, red" car from someone he assumes is a senior, picked up a manila envelope containing the valuables from the back seat of the car when he lifted out his coat...
...pulled up short to keep from ramming a parking meter and headed across the tracks into the light from the store front. The magazine rack was right in front of the door...
Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from the Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into a short, near-hysterical laugh...