Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked the wall colors as he does for any new building. The walls of the main hall were quickly labelled "Pusey pink" a very popular hue with the President that year. Similarly, when the Worcester Art Center was constructed in 1905, Pusey chose most of the furniture. One overstuffed barrel chair, comfortable but hard to get out of, was dubbed "Pusey's Folly" by faculty members who had been trapped...
...wall colors as he does for any new building. The walls of the main hall were quickly labeled "Pusey pink" a very popular hue with the President's that year. Similarly, when the Worcester Art Center was constructed in 1950, Pusey chose most of the furniture. One overstuffed barrel chair, comfortable but hard to get out of, was dubbed "Pusey's Folly" by faculty members who had been trapped...
...every appropriation was so charmingly and successfully lobbied through. When the Army Civil Functions Appropriations, commonly known as the pork barrel, passed the House last week, it was a wan descendant of bygone pork barrels. The bill provided $412,391,600 for dams, bridges, other engineering projects dear to the hearts of Congressmen. With wondrous forbearance, the Representatives resisted the pressures and blandishments of lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending...
...Frenchman Flat. At a control point ten miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that whitened as it rose swiftly into...
...each network has set up its own command post in London. NBC is so security-minded that important transatlantic messages are sent in code to keep them away from CBS signal-stealers. Boasts NBC's Assistant Producer Robert Graff: "We're going to hit them with every barrel we've got. We're going to be the first and the best." CBS News Director Sig Mickelson, serenely confident, says: "NBC started too late. They're six weeks behind us in all their plans...