Word: windowblind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-election emotion, few could mistake Truman for an inspiring leader in the pattern of Churchill or Roosevelt. Many remembered the bewildered, fumbling Harry Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina, we call him mule head...
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