Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much control Congress should have over the executive branch in determining policy. "It is eminently clear," he wrote in a stinging committee report, "that the role of the Congress in determining national policy, defense or otherwise, has deteriorated over the years." At issue was the Air Force's RS-70 reconnaissance-superbomber, formerly known...
...fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating it, he sees, through a window, a great crow settle on a snowy branch. It seems to him the most wonderful thing he has ever seen, and he calls his wife excitedly. "The woman's pragmatic blue eyes flicked from his face to the window where she saw only snow and rested on the forgotten food steaming between his hands. Her lips moved...
...President, the most important problem for the moment is to sell the Alliance all over again to the House. Perhaps he can do so this time; he will never do so again if he fails to organize the Washington branch of the project into a group basically agreed on what the Alliance...
...calmly does the orange branch...
...posted to St. Louis as a branch sales manager, and Tom and his sister were uprooted once again. Gone were the sunlit spacious backyards of Mississippi, replaced by rows of brick flats the color of "dried blood and mustard." The children sang in the Episcopal choir, but were made to feel like social untouchables. At home, the parents often "quarreled horribly,'' and C.C. grew more and more dissatisfied with his son. He felt the boy was "sissified," wanted him to play baseball, took a bitter delight in calling him "Miss Nancy...