Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even rougher. For three days a bitter battle raged. Trying to placate enough of their Southern colleagues to produce a majority on the final roll call, Democratic leaders found themselves giving ground both to segregationists and states'-righters. Thus an amendment, by Mississippi's Democratic Congressman John Bell Williams, requiring loyalty oaths of all youths enrolling in the bill's job corps, passed 144 to 112. And the House upheld the Senate's gubernatorial veto provision...
...Judge, spare my brother") to the wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow...
...wires for the door bell hung...
...BELL SYSTEM. Inside the building, plopped beside the Fountain of the Planets like an upside-down flatiron, a soothing voice says "Fasten your seat belts and adjust your earphones." The floor seems to churn, the roof to fall as the chair-ride jogs along into a spooky tunnel where the spectator sees a 3-D drama on communications. The exhibits include Picturephones on which you see whomever you talk...
...hours of the Kennedy assassination, when the matter of finishing up the fiscal 1965 budget was pressing. Johnson later remarked that he and Gordon spent "37 days and nights' work" wrapping up the $98 billion budget. Gordon, by nature a more tightfisted director than his predecessor, David Bell, had no trouble executing the slashes Johnson wanted and has been steadily cutting back ever since. Working for a President obviously fascinated by the political potential of budgeteering, he is being asked to perform tasks not ordinarily given a Budget Director...