Word: boll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
Timely Call. Why was President Kennedy so solicitous toward a relatively unknown Congressman? It happens that Burleson is leader of a loosely organized group of some 50 House Democrats, mainly Southern conservatives, who consider themselves an "economy bloc" -and are less reverently known as the "Boll Weevil Club." With Republicans in near unanimous support of spending limitations offered by House G.O.P. Policy Chairman John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the Boll Weevils clearly held the decisive votes. Kennedy's time on the telephone was well spent...
After the presidential phone call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...
...from Union troops; indeed, the most notable battle came on the water, with Farragut's damn-the-torpedoes victory in Mobile Bay. What the war did do was rip the foundations from beneath Alabama's cotton-based economy. And what the Civil War did not finish, the boll weevil...
...influence out of all proportion to its size-a bare 200,000 subscribers-and in more than one sphere. The paper was one of the first to recognize postwar Germany's literary resurgence, among the first to encourage such gifted young novelists as Giinter Grass and Heinrich Boll...