Word: straight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
Yellow Peak. Spruce but hatless, Hoagy had flown into Indianapolis from Los Angeles earlier in the week, dashed straight to the Murat Theater to oversee the rehearsals. Conductor Sevitzky* made room for him next to the podium, and after the photographers had finished crawling under the music racks to snap the new composer, the orchestra got down to work. Hoagy stood by intently, rolling his tongue in his cheeks as he always does when he is composing or listening to a song he has recorded...
That was about all Louella's story had to say. The news, she said, came "straight from Rome," the latest scene of Ingrid's celebrated romantic entanglement with 43-year-old Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, for whom she had renounced her husband and her career...
SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 20 Here, in the city where basketball was invented, Norm Shepard's quintet dropped its second straight road game, this time to Springfield College. The score...
Thirty eight hundred fans at Washington's National Guard Armory watched the varsity basketball team drop its second game Saturday night, 58 to 53. In its first road match this year, the quintet had traveled south to meet Georgetown, and the undefeated Hoyas produced their fifth straight...