Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry grabbed onto the presidential endorsement as if it were a life preserver-and for good reason...
Even when he went to the Bundestag to be sworn in for his third term as Chancellor, der Alte did not have his Cabinet list ready. The problem was pfennig-pinching Fritz Schäffer. As Minister of Finance in the old Cabinet, Schäffer had consistently resisted the plans of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard to ease taxes to produce more investment capital; he had also refused to release budget money for rearmament...
...Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...
Author McNulty himself was no native Irishman, but a Massachusetts-born nar-rowback, a term used by the oldtime immigrants to describe the clerkly quality of their nonlaboring sons. Like a true narrowback, McNulty in his heart hungered for the lost village-and he found it in Third Avenue's vestiges of Irish life, in the awful cooking, the hatred of machinery, the acid yet basically gentle manner of one man to another. This last quality crops out in many stories: the querulous man who has to go into the Army without having anyone to say goodbye...
store: a gin mill, a reverent term used only by its proprietor...