Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After members had listened for eleven days to 55 gamblers, officers of the law and assorted experts, the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee voted out a bill that would hobble, if not stop, nationwide betting. The bill would make it illegal to transmit across state lines any such information as "bets or wagers, scratches, jockey changes, weights, probable winners, betting odds or changes in the betting odds" until the race actually started...
...share movie theaters, service clubs and messes. The star and five other regulars on the 1949 football team were Negroes. White officers salute Negro officers without boggling. But living quarters are still separate, and the changeover will take time. Said a Negro corporal: "Every now & then, somebody will make a crack at you under their breath. But I don't pay any mind to that. It's better in the Army than outside...
...When the Oxford Dodgers went in for the second time, however, they provided the real excitement of the day, for they managed to make all their bases 'loaded,' and then one of their players hit a beautiful 'homer.' As an American woman said: 'He fair picklel that ball...
Uneasily, Tracy moves from one debacle to another: an awkward chat with Don about his fitness to support Elizabeth; the first meeting with his future son-in-law's proud parents; the engagement party, at which he is too busy mixing drinks in the kitchen to make his carefully prepared announcement. His consternation grows as the plans for a "small wedding" burgeon into guest lists of 572 for the ceremony and 280 for the reception. As a way out, he offers Elizabeth $1,500 to elope, withdraws the offer when he sees her disappointment...
Maximum Effort. In Manila, P.I., Columnist Ernesto del Rosario of the Chronicle suggested that the new republic's austerity program might be more successful if government officials would: 1) limit the cost of their wives' party dresses to $500 or less each, and 2) not make the state support the "other woman...