Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FEPC supporters made one more effort. Freshman Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. announced that he hoped to get a House majority-218 signatures-to a petition to pry the bill loose from committee. He was immediately sat upon by Manhattan's Adam Clayton Powell, one of the two House Negroes and author of the FEPC bill...
...readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only 88,000-by his own count-pay 25? a copy for Physical Culture, which purveys similar Macfaddist notions about "Adam & Eve Power...
While these pacific pyrotechnics dazzled the spectators, Moscow Radio continued, according to S.O.P., to blast Western capitalist democracies and the lackeys of Wall Street. This contrast moved the New York Herald Tribune to recall Kipling's poem about Adam-zad the bear...
...When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear!" Over and over the story, ending as he began:-"There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like...