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Word: barrelers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, there was "not a scintilla of a possibility" that Tom Dewey would be trying again for the White House in 1960. Said Lawyer Dewey. slipping away: "I'm an empty barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Citizen, Public Views | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...public can now reappraise the merits of the ''economy-minded" 88th Congress. Space satellites, B-52s, and vital foreign aid seem to have taken a secondary role to new Senate offices and pork-barrel legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Faithful Servant. The man who replaces him as Defense Minister is a lesser Soviet war hero, usually ranked fifth in the Red army hierarchy after Marshals Zhukov, Konev, Vasileysky and Sokolovsky. Malinovsky is stubby, barrel-chested and almost two years younger than Zhukov. He fought with a Czarist brigade beside U.S. troops at Saint-Mihiel on World War I's Western front, hurried back after the Revolution to help form soldiers' Soviets in Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Convulsion in the Kremlin | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Where there's tyranny, there's tyranny, not only in the gun barrel, not only in the prison cell, not only in the torture rooms . . . There is tyranny in the facial expression firmly set like iron bars, and in the stillborn tormented cry of pain within these bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Behind the Bars | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...Speaker of the House of Representatives, with powers far beyond those of Sam Rayburn in Washington, Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: After Magsaysay, What? | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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