Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relations both with the local civilians and the civil service employees have been of the highest order. An example of his thoughtfulness and loyalty to his civil service employees occurred just before Christmas of 1948 when a disastrous fire swept the engine overhaul shop at Quonset. The captain went to considerable effort to insure that the hundreds of employees of this engine shop all be retained on the civil service payroll until a new shop could be constructed months in the future...
...crowd. He had given them the great Jersey City Medical Center, the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, he declaimed, his ancient dewlaps shaking above a high, old-fashioned collar. "Will we turn over these buildings," he demanded, "and desert motherhood?" The 5,000 yelled: "No." On & on the old man went, pleading, threatening, appealing for consideration of favors graciously done by a corrupt political machine...
...best. But the familiar, arrogant zip had gone. Jersey City had heard him out when it went to the polls last week. That day, after 36 years of pious corruption and political tyranny, Boss Hague was toppled from his throne...
...little after Christmas when the doctor first told me. Kenny and Denny were only four months old then. The doctor said he didn't want to be cruel, but he didn't know whether an operation would help ... I went home . . . As I sat in the nursery holding my two babies and crying, the only thing I could think of was that I had to tell 'Brown,' my husband. He came running into the house whistling and shouting, 'Where are my two babies?' He always says something like that...
Aside from this one, three matches went to three sets and two others contained sets where the score mounted beyond the usual...