Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...
...campaigner he is dry, uninspiring. He does not make speeches, he lectures. His voice is as flat as a Midwest prairie. But he always says what he thinks, and means what he says (example: his two-word admonition to the U.S. people in 1947 to "Eat less"). His wife, Martha, is an ingratiating and razor-sharp platform performer...
...happened that General Ike looked in on Candidate Truman at the White House last week. Had they talked politics? No, said Ike, defense plans. Would he run for President? "I wrote a letter and I meant every word of it," replied Ike. It was another "No"-but every time he said it, more & more Democrats hopefully interpreted it as "Maybe." Said Florida's Senator Claude Pepper: "He may be pulling the door a little closer to him, but I didn't hear the lock click...
...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
...through Cardinals and priests to get out the vote, may well be the deciding factor in the election, since the apathetic votes represent the potential supporters of the de Gasperi party. The Pope has firmly said that all Catholics must vote, but that no Catholic can vote Communist. His word is carried throughout the Church and emphasized with threats of thunderbolts and damnation...