Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House was an extraordinary process. For five and a half years I wandered in there casually any time, as if it were a city or county build ing, waving to the guards, listening to them exchange race tips. . . . Now I had to have everything but a blood test. I didn't recognize a single guard until the ten-minute grilling and clothes brushing was over and I was inside, with an uneasy feeling that I'd be nudged by a bayonet any minute...
...GOPresidential weather vane veered minutely but perhaps significantly last week. The puff of wind came from Wisconsin, whose April 4 primaries will be the first solid test of Wendell Willkie's 1944 popularity with the party rank & file. Two prominent candidates for places as Dewey delegates to the Republican convention declared themselves fed up with waiting for the New York governor to say yes or no, shifted their candidacies to the Willkie slate...
...Germany's armies, hard-pressed but far from destroyed in the east, the supreme test will come with invasion from the west. Their ability to meet that test must depend, in the last analysis, upon the number and quality of their reserves...
Publicity-wise Ray Dumont last week swore he was in earnest. He promised that the Congress' National Tournament in August will test his both-ways base running. Said he: "Any new idea . . . always receives a cold reception. . . . They said Alexander Graham Bell had bells ringing in his belfry...
...Meyer Friedman and Jacob Sergei Kasinin became interested in G.G.'s and R.G.'s flouting of the accepted rule, made tes after test to discover some organic difference in the twins. There was no difference. The doctors even tested the flow of blood to the kidneys, because a poor kidney blood supply is believed to lead to heart trouble. Both twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart attack...