Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then House Republican Leader Joe Martin put the most painful burr of all under the harness. All Congressmen, including Muley Doughton, want to get away for a two-week Easter recess. Martin announced flatly that he would prevent the recess unless the House voted a pay-as-you-go compromise first. Old Muley Doughton grew red-faced and smoking hot, but he still balked...
...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...
...list of men receiving commissions is as follows: John R. Abbott, Jr.; Oliver F. Ames; William O. Apthorp; Carleton Burr; Henry M. Campbell; Gerard H. Coster; Jack H. James; William H. Latimer, Jr.; Allan L. Levine; Thomas J. L. Redmond; Rufus F. Walker; William Woodward, Jr.; William C. Wright...
Whether the unfortunate use of the term "nurses' aides" is to be chalked up against Dr. Emily T. Burr as well as TIME'S editor ... I feel that it is an insult to the many women who have become Red Cross Nurse's Aides...
...Burr and TIME should have been more careful to draw the distinction between Nurse's Aides and nurses' aides. The latter, called "ward maids" by some hospitals, are paid helpers who clean up the wards, set up trays, fill water flagons, and do other simple jobs which bring them in relatively little direct contact with the patients. Not all of them, by any means, are morons, but some morons can manage the work, as Dr. Burr pointed out. As for volunteer Red Cross Nurse's Aides, TIME is on the record (TIME...