Word: umptieth
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Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...newsmen, who learned for the umptieth time that this was the most unconventional of all Presidential candidates, shrugged, tore up their leads. Willkie laid a wreath on the Lincoln tomb and the train rocked on into Minnesota...
...Beverly Hills voice physician, Dr. Harold Barnard, warned him a hundred times to slow down, talk less. Neither pleading nor orders had effect. Said Dr. Barnard for the umptieth time: "He needs a policeman, not a doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that...
...Campobello cottage, Franklin Roosevelt broke his umptieth precedent, and gave a headache to football fans and turkey-growers by moving Thanksgiving Day up this year from November 30 to November...
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