Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth May Craig, pert, irrepressible correspondent for a group of Maine newspapers. Said May Craig: everything the President has said about the case, she had read in the newspapers and heard over the radio. Smilingly, the President doubted her word. Where did she read it? At the tag end of some newspaper stories? Surely not in the lead, he said, for he had read the papers thoroughly on his vacation and he had not seen such an account. He had, he added, been specializing in reading newspapers...
...each one in the boat we'd empty his pockets and search for identification. One was named Thomas. He had a canteen on his belt and a map in his pocket, both with that name on it. John Thomas. Wilson, H.W., had an identification tag around his neck. He also had a billfold with a picture of a girl, some foreign coins, a wrist watch, and a bottle opener...
...third had a knife and some coins in his pocket but there was no name. If he ever had an identification tag around his neck, it would have been gone. He had no head or neck. He was and would continue to be an unknown-a nobody-at-all. We put them, one on the other, in the bottom of the boat, covered them with a canvas and started back. It was a long ride back...
...vast area had been cleared away. Much of Tom Dewey's strength had come from Old Guard Republican leaders determined to beat Willkie at any cost. They had used Tom Dewey as a parking place while they beat Willkie. But if they parked too long, Policeman Dewey would tag them. The politicos pondered; and the path for a dark horse was by no means closed...
...that shook the Greek exile Government apart. After 20 days of wary talk in the shadow of the snowy Pindus Range, Greeks in Greece clasped hands, agreed to drop their fratricide, devote themselves henceforth to killing Germans. Greeks in Cairo lost their nerve, began last week a game of tag which left them all demeaned...