Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the 20-Yard Line. Harry Truman had taken a tremendous political gamble. One risk was that the special session might backfire on the Democrats: the Republicans might straightway haul up the President's civil rights program and let the Southern Democrats filibuster it -and the session - to death. Another was that Republicans might run away with the session. Already in the works were Republican plans for more investigations of the Democratic Administration...
...G.O.P. majority and had stuck to the progressive wing. She had learned her district like the back of her hand. She faithfully answered every letter herself. Every week, she sent local newspapers a folksy column called "Washington and You." Said a constituent: "That Margaret is straight as a yard of pump water...
...startling performance but it had its effect. One of the biggest street crowds in Seattle's history lined downtown sidewalks when he drove through. His speech in the 12,000-seat Memorial Stadium was made in the afternoon, drew only 6,000. But exuberant throngs of Navy Yard workers jammed a downtown intersection in Bremerton, across Puget Sound, when he appeared there. The crowd yelled, "Lay it on, Harry!" as he renewed his rawhiding of Congress. He cried: "They are going down to Philadelphia to tell you what a great Congress they have been. If you believe that...
...time he was seven, Kyosai had become a full-fledged art student. He wrung the traditional Kano academy dry, and appropriated every technique of Japan's old masters. Then he opened his own highly unorthodox art school. For the edification of his students, he kept the school yard crammed with pets. Nature, Kyosai had decided, was more instructive than convention. He always knew that the eagle would eventually conquer the wind...
True, the prewar species of pedagogical prude will insure peace of mind to local citizenry often uneasy at the prospect of women residing in the Yard. Even the introduction of a physical culture course for school marms can scarcely be expected to make Sargent girls out of secondary school teachers...