Word: boone
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...finer guerdons to bestow than those $15,000-a-year salaries that go with federal judgeships and top federal jobs. Harry Truman has often bestowed this largess as such-to cheer a personal friend, to assuage the hurt of a defeated candidate, to grant a political boon. Last week the U.S. Senate, which is also politically minded, brusquely brought it to Harry Truman's attention that such appointments are made only "with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...
Designed in keeping with the simple lines of Lamont, the lamppost replaces an older one which was removed last year. Police Chief Alvin R. Randall hailed it yesterday as a boon to campus cons...
...infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced that 15,038 of the remaining 29,632 internees would be freed, and the camps closed. Of the others, 13,945 would go into regular East German prisons. The Russians are keeping 649 "criminals...
...which talent [in America] is less capable of supporting itself for what it is, and to do what it wants to do, than in most European countries." Critic Spender might also have noted that the kind of haphazard judgment displayed fore & aft of his essay is a questionable boon either to serious literary innovators or their determined handful of readers...