Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Charlie Wilson give up his job as president of General Electric* to take charge of U.S. mobilization in Washington? Wilson, eyeing his visitor through his thick lenses, reconsidered the "No" which had been his answer since Korea. He might accept, said he, if he 1) got full powers to run mobilization his way, and 2) reported directly to the President and not through a middleman. Next day Harry Truman was on the phone: "That," the President told G.E.'s Wilson, "is exactly what I had in mind...
Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize...
EXPERIMENT is the rule throughout every phase of Tito's Yugoslavia, and the general result is regimented confusion. Much of the government resembles the experimental laboratory of a university: a lot of kids-some with textbooks still in hand-are trying to run a country...
...gentlewoman, or gentle girl, would either be shocked and run away. Or she would be hardened, which is the worse evil...
Once upon a time there were 13 clocks that wouldn't run. A cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in search of a kitten to tear apart or a handsome young prince to feed to his geese...