Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicos got a shock: Tom Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that...
...When the dark, curly-haired young man in the slate-blue of the Royal Canadian Air Force rose from his bench in the House of Commons, some members did not recognize him. The honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
...first solid test of Wendell Willkie's 1944 popularity with the party rank & file. Two prominent candidates for places as Dewey delegates to the Republican convention declared themselves fed up with waiting for the New York governor to say yes or no, shifted their candidacies to the Willkie slate...
...these maneuverings might come a counterrevolutionary slate with Arze for President, General Toro for Minister of Defense. The Cabinet presumably would include "good" members from all major parties-perhaps eventually even the non-Fascists in the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) now in power...
Like death's shroud, snow fell on Ortona. Over the town's rubble and corpses a chill Apennine wind keened. Ortona, for centuries alive and pleasant on a rocky shelf above the slate-colored Adriatic, now lay dead and hideous. The battle had surged...