Word: bowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...block bounded by Massachusetts Ave., Plympton, Bow and Arrow Streets across from Lamont...
...Frank T. Bow of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations committee, said the budget is "an enigma proposing, on one hand, something for almost everybody, and on the other hand, moves to gobble up our economic resources and dull the will of private enterprise." In the same vein, Republican Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana described the budget as "guns, butter...
...into a buzz saw of revolt. Liberals led by Morris Udall of Arizona, brother of Interior Secretary Stewart, angrily told the Speaker of constituent pressure to do something about Powell. Shouted Udall: "I've got to go back to my people!" Insisted McCormack: "We shouldn't bow...
...bow they did-in part perhaps because of a Lou Harris poll reporting that public confidence in Congress had plummeted from 71% a year ago to 54%. When the Democratic caucus convened, Udall offered a resolution to strip Powell of his chairmanship, stipulating that he would nonetheless battle on the House floor to seat Powell pending a probe of his conduct. Declared Udall: "The people have the right to pick the Representative they want, but they do not have the right to tell the House who shall be chairman of a powerful committee...
Inside the clubs, the Princeton men sit at round tables and are served their vegetable soup by Negro servants in white coats and black bow ties. A servant calls a club man "Mr. Bradley," and a club man calls a servant "Thomas." After dinner, the club men retire to their walnut-panelled parlor to talk, smoke cigars and sip coffee. Then they wander off to the billiard tables downstairs or to the studies and library upstairs. Everything is refined and muted and comfortable...