Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic hotshot. He placed well up on Pollster Gallup's popularity indexes, was known to one & all as a potent Presidential possibility. Last week, a Washington mob of political lynchers and character assassins, breathing heavily, stepped back from Mr. McNutt's mangled remains. There on the ground, they hoped, lay all that was Presidential of handsome Paul McNutt...
Ohio, Oregon. John Garner, never a man to throw good money after bad, last week declined to enter Ohio's May 14 primary, on the ground that the State committee had sewed up the 52 Buckeye delegates for Term III. Instead, he entered Oregon's May 17 primary, seeking...
...Suggestion is that isolated forts could be kept in place by frontal anchoring sheaths extending deep into the ground. Chances are that continuation of heavy fire could dig to any depth...
...proclaimed the Irish Republic and named de Valera its "President." After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many another Irish patriot had done before-raised money and sympathy for the Irish cause...
...little capital and the public put in huge amounts. Some were set up in such a way that insiders, by means of management fees, collected much of the gravy from the earnings of the public's money. Some were used by their managers as an unloading ground for undesirable securities...