Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have seen the attack coming had he not blinded himself to the meaning of the last Congressional election. Fighter that he is, it is doubtful that he would have withdrawn his chin even then. All during the first session of the 76th Congress he absorbed attack, going back for more on one issue after another. But now came the terrible closing rounds, as an angry and rebellious Congress fought toward the adjournment bell...
...unprecedented monetary powers the President had parried (TIME, July 10). But within six historic days: the legal authority of most of the "alphabet" administrative agencies set up under the New Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan was circumscribed and back to the State machines went a great share of the political power that Franklin Roosevelt had spent six years gathering into Federal hands. Hardest blow of all landed on his nose, which the Senate feared he wanted to stick too far into international power politics...
During this retreat Groesbeck was not thinking of winning victories. He was thinking of saving his army. All through the winter, as he shuttled back & forth between Washington and Manhattan, Groesbeck wondered how he could get out from under, how he could forestall public agencies from building competitive transmission lines to his customers' doors...
Last week, Orchid Hunters MacDonald and McKay were back in the jungle...
...Canadian-born Explorer Kaulback, Tibet is no hermit kingdom, but a realistic Shangri-La whose glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke...