Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous pork barrel," charged that most of the Senators had put projects into it regardless of necessity or urgency...
...Senate listened hardest to South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney. Sure, he agreed, it was "a stupendous pork barrel . . . but it will put pork chops and bacon and roast pork on millions of dinner tables." The Senators had added more than $101 million to the bill the House had already passed. But they had a good excuse for throwing economy out the window. The bill's whopping total-$640,253,200-was still about $25 million under the Administration's budget estimate. An overwhelming voice vote rolled the barrel to passage...
...Eliot House eight-oared crew swept out of the Charles River maelstrom like a barrel yesterday to frustrate Winthrop's entry by five feet and to capture the inter-House rowing championship...
Personal Traits. He is big (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) and barrel-chested, black-browed and bespectacled, with thinning grey hair brushed carefully across a high-domed head. He dresses meticulously, wears custom-made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full...
...knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more enjoyable as this bizarre ensemble umpahed its way through the finest of old Vienna schmaltz...