Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right. Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane...
Bold Sober. In Hartford, Conn., Motorist Oliver P. Barber plowed into the back of a police car, paid a $200 fine despite his testimony that the slurred speech, watery eyes and walking staggers noted by cops had actually been caused by a loose dental plate, an asthma-sinus condition, and a boyhood mishap with an ax that had damaged several tendons in his left foot...
...principles involved anywhere is to forsake them everywhere." His lowest blow: "The livid stench of sadism, sex, immorality and juvenile pregnancy infesting the mixed schools of the District of Columbia and elsewhere." Washington schoolmen, whose delinquency problems are no worse than most big-city school systems', angrily lashed back at the myth created by four years of Dixie Congressmen's efforts to prove that integration does not work in the nation's capital...
...introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing left but a desire for quiet...
Chairman of a 50-member committee, largest in congressional history, Clarence Cannon works almost around the clock at the job -as he sees it -of saving the U.S. from bankruptcy. He darts back and forth among his 14 subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat...