Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make him one of the foremost U.S. horticulturists. Entomologist Albert Cook developed a kerosene emulsion that became a standard insecticide for Michigan fruit...
...past, Cleve Bailey has supported some of Powell's civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell's amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: "You are a liar." Thereupon, the scramble started...
Powell, a onetime Colgate javelin hurler, seemingly had all the assets. He is 46, while Bailey is 69. Powell is an arrow-straight 6 ft. 4 in., and Bailey, who stoops slightly, is at least half a foot shorter. Powell is a heavyweight (190 Ibs.); Bailey could probably make the welterweight limit...
...Bailey had the advantage of surprise. He turned in his chair and launched a looping right that landed on Powell's right cheekbone. Possibly as much from astonishment as anything, Powell went over backward. Bailey leaped after him, reached down to grab Powell by the collar, and was drawing back his right fist for another haymaker when other committee members grabbed him and pulled him away...
Powell lost more than the tussle: his amendment was defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...