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That, on April 13, 1945, was the humble Harry Truman, ex-soldier, unsuccessful haberdasher, minor Missouri politician, able U.S. Senator, thrust suddenly into the White House by the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "I never felt so out of place in my life," he confided to his old colleagues in the U.S. Senate that day. "I don't know if I'll ever get used...
...Chambers thrust it in his pocket, too shocked by the meanness of the gift to say a word. Good enough for a renegade's daughter? he thought...
...Farnham said women's comparatively new social, political, and educational equalities tended to obscure her original function as a bearer and rearer of children. Modern woman, she said, is educated by men's standards, she knows little about family life, and when she is thrust in the middle of it she finds it a limited, stunted role...
...stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators, the Duchess of Kent toyed with her salmon-pink rose corsage...
Dunsters' A team handed the slumping Lowell's their third straight defeat, 52 to 50. The Bellboys blew a 13 point lead in the second half of the see-saw contest, and a fast-breaking Funster scoring thrust, led by Chuck Brynteson's 21 points, pushed it into overtime...