Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and half-back John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...
...Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...
...Halt served one term in the Senate, was defeated in 1940. Now 43, he devotes most of his time to speaking and lecturing, has served five terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates...
...There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes. Mr. Sprigle is guilty of slanted selectivity throughout his narrative...
Lanny masters his scientific lessons without much trouble, hoodwinks Hitler about U.S. plans in Italy, and tells General Patton what to do about taking Paris. The book ends with Roosevelt's election for the fourth term, and his discussion with Lanny as to what he should do next...