Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...
...more striking coming from the man who, as Senator, had done so much to steer Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal through Congress, had been rewarded with Supreme Court robes and a Cabinet...
...offing in the freshmen's starting lineup. Louis McCagg is at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark will steer, yell stroke, and generally direct activities from the coxswain's post...
Died. Andrew Lawrence Somers, 54, longtime Democratic Representative from New York (since 1925) who helped steer F.D.R.'s gold-devaluation bill through the House (1934); of a liver ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Roman Catholic Somers was one of Zionism's most active champions in Congress, led the fight for a $150 million loan to Israel...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...