Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...
...project of a "United States of Indonesia," with probable dominion status under the Dutch crown. Last week the Dutch still insisted that every jot & tittle of the proposed agreement must be in place before they transferred sovereignty to the Indonesians ; the impatient islanders wanted sovereignty first, and to tuck in the loose ends later. The most hopeful aspect of the conference was that both sides knew they could not get what they wanted by force...
Helping Hands. In Atlanta, unable to tuck in his shirttail because his arm was in a cast, Ralph Adams asked a boy to help him, later discovered that his wallet with $13 was missing. In Denver, Bus Driver Otis C. Trueblood left his bus to help a blind passenger across the street, returned to find that three other passengers had left with his change container...
...Tuck. This time it was the Dewey leaders who were trying to fight somebody with nobody: Committeeman Axel J. Beck of Elk Point...
...tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...