Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, which has been sending up skyrockets about economy, last week got its first chance to cut President Eisenhower's budget, and fell head over heels into its most cherished federal-spending outlet-the pork barrel. Up for consideration was that pork-packed perennial, the rivers and harbors bill, an assortment of 100 public-works projects, including one for every state in the Union except Rhode Island and Nevada. President Eisenhower vetoed the bill last year because it included so many projects that had not been approved by all required U.S. agencies...
...eight long years, Illinois' Paul Douglas rose to take a cut at the bill. He proposed an amendment authorizing the President to postpone the "least essential" one-fourth of the pork-barrel projects. But Douglas knew what would happen. "History is repeating itself," he said in wry tones. "Every time I rise to criticize the rivers and harbors bill, a perfect swarm of hornets descends upon me, and the questions buzz...
...plans for a $500 million pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers going through Nasser's nationalized ditch...
Most of the time bald, myopic, barrel-chested, spindly-legged Pnin wrestles mirthfully with his fate even though he loses most of the falls. Bound for a lecture date, he blithely takes the wrong train after having painstakingly consulted an out-of-date timetable. Bent on being a sports-minded pal to a schoolboy visitor, he remarks chummily that the first description of tennis in Russian literature "is found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture...
...that Harold will keep his Cabinet rank and membership in Ike's National Security Council and will head the U.S. delegation to the United Nations disarmament meeting in London this month, this switch of Harold's activities signified a definite movement in the direction of the pickle barrel...