Word: tion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...manner also new to modern diplomacy, the U.S. had seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
...went back to his law office and began the long haul up through the Illinois political machine. Making his first bid for the Senate in 1938, he had to buck Chicago's high-riding Kelly-Nash machine to win the nomination. When he came up for re-elec tion in 1944 he had so won over the old Boss that syntax-wrecking Ed Kelly nominated him for the vice-presidency...
Guns on the Go. Many of the guns with which Figueres' men fought to victory had been stacked last summer on a finca outside Havana for use against Trujillo. At the last minute the Cuban army authorities seized the guns, and the exped tion flopped. "We waited too long," the exiles say now. Last winter Guatemalan planes began taking loads of flowers to Havana. They flew back by night, carrying heavier cargo. Cases of guns were quietly stowed away in Guatemalan warehouses. Then, when Figueres rebelled in Costa Rica, the guns were flown to his mountain forces. They helped...
...Wisconsin, I think differently," Oda said. "Returns showed the Gensui has sokojikara [depth and strength]. Here is a saint and philosopher who has not been home in years, nor campaigned for himself - and yet he comes in second to Stassen. ... I view the Wisconsin primaries as an indica tion that the Supreme Commander has more than a good chance of becoming President...