Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were more of the same; all were beaten. But still the Senate could not get on with the vote. There was still Bill Langer to reckon with-a man determined never to let his anger be watered by reason. His objection to the draft extension resolution had been ignored. Now he was fixing to filibuster the Senate into repentance...
...fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...Conroy, "this here oldest gal o' mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...
...Dear Charley-Send an expert to examine the [Paige Type-Setting Machine]. ... I reckon it will take about a hundred thousand machines to supply the world, & I judge the world has got to buy them-it can't well be helped"; "Rush that brass [stamp]. Don't let a moment be lost. . . . TELEGRAPH ME A RESULT OF SOME SORT IN 24 HOURS...
...time job. Last week he got it. Ed was a "Truman-before-Chicago" man. As treasurer of the Democratic National Committee he wiped out a $750,000 deficit in 1942, raised funds so efficiently that the Committee actually had a small surplus in 1944. As politicians reckon, he was entitled to cash...