Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a chance, however, that Sam Rayburn may be asked to desert his love, as has many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...
...exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage we died again, time rolled on, and I passed out from too many drinks...
Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
...silly, funny, exasperating, infantile things she does in the course of growing into her marriage. For an hour or so, Claudia wags elbows, knees and tongue in a subadolescent manner that would send any husband less tenderly crucified than Robert Young on a screaming sprint for a psychiatrist, a desert island, or an ax. She suggests that her husband, if he is more man than mouse, will simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering...
Already thousands of votes have been recorded-votes marked on handmade ballots yellowed with tropic humidity and desert grime: soldiers have been voting since nominations closed June 30. Out of Australia's 7,000,000 population, 820,000 men and 40,000 women are in the services...