Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most delegates stayed about an hour and most emerged smiling. But smiles are not necessarily votes. Said one North Carolina delegate as he shook hands with Ike: "I've been talking to Taft, but I wanna say it sure would take a son of a gun not to like you." Replied Ike: "Well, you do what your conscience tells you." Later, the delegate said he was still for Taft...
Sullivan got back later by reprinting erroneous Winchell items side by side with his subsequent retractions, which were so carefully worded that readers would never guess they were crypto-corrections. Added Sullivan: "So, you wanna play, Stinky?" The feud has simmered for years. Lately, Winchell has fought back obliquely. For example, now that Sullivan is master of ceremonies on a top TV show on CBS (Toast of the Town), Winchell raves about the competing NBC show (Comedy Hour) which is on at the same time...
...Lemme ride on de waindeer, mamma, I wanna go fo ride." "Look, honey," said his weary mother, tugging at his scarf, "how many times do I haf to tell ya. This is no circus, it's...well, it's Christmas...
...Wanna See the Boy." Then Jersey Joe Walcott, ex-longshoreman, ex-hod carrier, who spent a bitter year and a half on home relief and who lost 15 of his 64 listed fights because "hunger was my house guest," went home to Camden, N.J. to his wife and six children, the oldest man in history to win the World Heavyweight Championship...
...triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...