Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint Boyd director of the Bureau of Mines two years ago, Lewis blackballed Boyd...
...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
...pact nations should be attacked by "an aggressor." The commitment (Article Five) provides that if one or more of the treaty nations should be attacked by an aggressor, each of the others will, individually or collectively, take whatever measures it deems necessary against the aggressor "including the use of armed force...
...broad prophecy, this last might turn out to be true. Churchill, however, had designed the statement for use in a by-election at Sowerby. Presumably, it was intended to win votes for the Tories. It was not likely...
...Words. Runner-up Caroline Littlejohn, who hopes to use her scholarship at Barnard, had not been so confident. She is at the top of her class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...