Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professors Warren A. Seavey and W. Barton Leach upheld the Republican stand, Professor Mark DeW. Howe defended Truman, while Associate Professor John, Ciardi spoke for the Third Party, with Professor Zechariah Chafee taking an impartial stand between the major candidates...
Dewey's speeches were not electrifying. "As never before," the candidate solemnly declared, "we need a rudder to our ship of state and we need a firm hand at the tiller." When he referred to his opponent he spoke more in sorrow than in anger, never mentioning his name. "We know the kind of government we have now. It's tired. It's confused. It scolds and complains . . . It's coming apart at the seams...
While Jessup spoke, his tall, handsome wife sat in the visitors' section, knitting calmly...
...exotically perfumed ladies, gowned as for a royal drawing room. This year, along the wide concrete promenade outside the conference hall, cheaply dressed men & women ambled with the awkward gait of country people unaccustomed to their Sunday suits. But the Conservatives still lacked the common touch. Even ordinary delegates spoke of "they" rather than "we" when they referred to the workers or the "poorer classes...
They got them on the fifth day, when the silent bats finally spoke. Boston hit three home runs, to the alarm of Clevelanders in the largest crowd (86,288) to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time. Boston batters, who at one stretch had gone 23 consecutive innings without scoring a run, got six in the seventh inning. They won the game, 11-5. Head down, Bob Feller walked to the showers, the first Cleveland pitcher to be shelled from...