Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gang" v. "Team." After it echoed around Capitol Hill and the nation's press, Corsi's "security gang" label began to sizzle. At the next day's committee hearing. Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner shouted at Corsi: "You used strong language here yesterday. You said Mr. McLeod heads a 'security gang.' I want to tell Mr. McLeod that he is doing a good job, and that won't be the last time he's called something like that. Anybody who does a good security job can expect to be smeared with...
...matter how sweet I feel, or how mean"). Once a week, usually on Thursday mornings, Secretary of State Dulles comes by to join the Senator at breakfast and brief him on the latest foreign-policy developments. At 8:30, except on the Dulles mornings, George is driven to Capitol Hill in the limousine he rates as the Senate's president pro tempore...
...trundling," and one Irish historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para-Methodist, established egg rolling on the White House lawn. Before his time, children had rolled their eggs down the Capitol slopes as a climax to their annual Sunday School Union parades, but Congress was fussy about its grass, and ordered them off the premises in 1877. Hayes welcomed them to the White House grounds. By the first Administration of Grover Cleveland, the annual egg roll had been souffleed...
...most melodious. Weber puts as much sweet pathos and lilting grace into these little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York...
Some young doctor is supposed to have wandered into the Capitol and shot Huey, but an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s known it was his bodyguard, who was after money or something. Naturally, an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s don't trust their friends. More specific cases will be enlightening...