Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoke from the Eisenhower fireworks seemed to be drifting away, and the boom for Justice William 0. Douglas had collapsed. This week, Americans for Democratic Action, the last sizable Democratic bloc outside the South still holding out against Harry Truman, sourly conceded defeat. A.D.A., which had favored both Ike and Douglas, admitted that the President could get the nomination "if he persists [in pursuing it] with the power of his office." In other words, they would be for Truman, but without enthusiasm. When Eleanor Roosevelt, a prominent figure in A.D.A., emerged from a White House chat with the President last...
...extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
...this way could not have so large a part of the system's angular momentum. The recent theory of Harvard's Dr. Fred L. Whipple (that the sun and the planets were formed at the same time out of a cloud of mixed gas and smoke particles) is hardly better, says Dr. ter Haar. It accounts for the distribution of the angular momentum of the planets, but not for all of the other "regularities...
...hearing of the Chicago Tribune's Anglophobic Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who stalked out of the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom when Rothermere began. The Colonel, tactful friends explained, is also allergic to cigar smoke...
...innings and left the game a mere thirteen runs behind. The Funsters looked as if they were trying to stir up a Black Sox scandal in those first two innings as they concocted over a dozen errors and raced wildly around the field. After the smoke of battle had cleared away, the impatient umpire called the game with the score still...