Word: blanton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this time the Supreme Court. On May 8, 1936 the nation awoke to find the official flag of the U.S.S.R. flying over the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., with a copy of "Down With Capitalism," a recent issue of the Lampoon, at the base of the flagpole. Representative Tomas Blanton (D.-Tex.) literally rushed to the rostrum of the House "to warn his colleagues and the country," "suspecting that the flag might mean the signal for social revolution," according to the Boston Post...
...Last member of Congress to be censured was Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. The last Representative was Thomas Blanton of Texas, who was reprimanded in 1921 for inserting salacious material in the Congressional Record. Blanton also pressured the House Stationery Room to obtain a whisky flask for him-during Prohibition-and then used the flask as an example of the wares available at the Stationery Room...
Inching Along. But Cleveland Coach Blanton Collier is an optimist, too. All he had to do was stop Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year, who completed 51.8% of his passes this season. He even thought he knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another...
...Healing Power of Poetry, by Dr. Smiley Blanton (Crowell; $3.95). The author, perhaps the only positive-thinking psychiatrist in the country, is the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale's trusted associate. Says Dr. Peale: "Actually, this book is but another means by which this kindly doctor loves people into improved health...