Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first it was bad, incredibly, disastrously bad. When the reports from only 50 out of more than 3,000 precincts were in, Wendell Willkie said: "Well, that looks like it. We said it would be all or nothing, and it looks like nothing." Somebody suggested that 50 precincts weren't very many. But Willkie only smiled and shook his head...
...Government agencies. Plainly, someone in the Office of Censorship had slipped the juicier portions of the Kellems-von Zedlitz correspondence to Columnist Drew Pearson and Representative Coffee. Clyde Reed called for a full-dress Senate investigation. Not too gallantly, he added: "The letters may have been mushy, but they weren't seditious...
Democrats and ALPsters, instead of glowing over victory, rushed into print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...
...join the band eventually. Before returning to New York on the N.H.R.R.'s midnight Owl, Lugg went out to Charlie Vinal's that night and recorded eight sides with Charlie, Johnny Windhurst, Ev Schwarz, and Jack Hart. Of course, these records will not be released, although if it weren't for wartime conditions (including my own status) I'd be inclined to issue the four best sides privately. The most successful efforts were "Squeeze Me" and "Tin Roof Blues," both in medium tempo...
...party line of suicide would have been assured of unqualified popular approval throughout the country, if it weren't for two facts: 1) very few cared, anyhow; 2) fewer still believed the Communists' word, not even their last...