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During World War II, Conway was a company commander and was awarded the Military Cross for hero- ism in Italy...
...similar margin. (The Senate is preparing its own version now.) Today's GOP victory saw its share of rhetorical lobs: Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called the cuts "mean-spirited" and "morally wrong"; House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) decried "the same old Chicken Little-ism: the sky is falling, liberals are out of power and what are we going to do, beat our chests and talk about the poor and elderly?" Besides the cuts, the bill contained $5.4 billion in aid for states recently hit by natural disasters, most of it slated for California...
...appeal: smaller government, lower taxes and fewer, less costly social programs. They're confident as well that the President's attempts to retard their march will fail or be perceived as obstructionist and that his embrace of some G.O.P. nostrums will be dismissed by voters as desperate me-too-ism...
...room; this veiled figure is the first of the Sibylline crones who would keep turning up in his later work. He does Fauve blotches -- Mediterranean with measles, after Matisse and Derain -- and combines them with elements of the classicizing movement which, in Catalunya, was known as noucentisme (20th century-ism), with "timeless" peasant figures, olive trees and old arches...
...enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...