Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Truman's party now rates as a slight favorite to win control of the Senate, it will be no easy trick. If the net Democratic gain is three seats--tying the parties at 48 each--the vice-president's vote will decide which party takes charge of committees and gobbles up the rest of the majority plums. Assuming that Earl Warren will be that vice-president, the Democrats must net four new seats. The battle for the Senate may well have a higher Hooper rating next Tuesday than the Presidential race, and it will probably be much pleasanter listening...
There was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a victor in Poland, France and the Ukraine, and 68 at the time of the Allied landings in Normandy. In retrospect, his tragedy was that Hitler always insisted on holding the most advanced point his troops reached, would not permit even slight strategic withdrawals until too late. After the Allies landed in Normandy, Hitler's headquarters had asked, "What shall we do?" Said Rundstedt: "End the war! What else...
Coach Bruce Munro's charges suffered no permanent ill effects from their 3 to 0 victory over Army last weekend although several squad members were bruised in the contest. Right wing Jon Spivak, who sustained a slight concussion at West Point, has been declared ready to play by the medical department...
What Was That? Near St. Charles, Ill., while Farmer Maurice Regole's silo exploded and collapsed the barn against the feed shed, which in turn knocked the windmill over the implement shed, Farmer Regole peacefully slept on, reported to neighbors next day that he had heard "a slight noise...
...McCabe's Jayvee eleven got a slight foretaste Friday afternoon of what was to happen 24 hours later to their Varsity comrades...