Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles, making 350 speeches, shouting out some 560,000 words. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts like a last gasp, were...
...Tuesday's balloting seemed to repudiate the widely-accepted thesis that the United States was bound to enter a period of conservatism. This was shown as much by the scores of Congressional turnovers as by the victory of President Truman. Where the Senate had Curley Brooks, Joe Ball, and Tom Stewart, it now has Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, and Estes Kefauver. The House has similarly changed...
Wasting no time in the third period, Dunster, sparked by the powerful line play of guards Tom O'Shea and Jake Nackshian and center Bob Kelly rolled down the field on its bucks and power pushes. Murray Pearlstein burst over center from the 12 and scored standing up, but the extra point buck again failed. A wild passing spree failed to help Lowell in the closing minutes of the game...
...Thomas. A Federal Grand Jury in Washington began looking into charges, repeatedly printed by Columnist Drew Pearson, that Congressman Thomas had padded his office payroll with the names of several people who did no work and who kicked back to him all or part of their salaries. Attorney General Tom Clark's lawyers proceeded under a statute which makes it a criminal offense to issue false statements to the Government. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
First prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items...