Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office and discussed the nomination with her. I judged from the questions she asked that there were a number of points which she would carefully examine, and knowing what I felt the answers to those points would be, I concluded that her conscience might lead her to cast a vote against Admiral Strauss...
...Senate endorsed tax extension, 57-35. But it was a perilous victory for Johnson: all 35 nay votes were cast by Democrats. Analyzing the vote, restive Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark (TIME, July 6) pointed out that a majority of Johnson's Democratic troops were not following him, that he was having his way only through a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Clark then began to circulate a secret tally sheet of seven recent key votes, showing that a heavy majority of Democrats supported liberal amendments, only to see them abandoned or defeated in conference committee by the conservative...
Other members of the cast are Mikel Lambert, who was seen recently as Cordelia in King Lear; Marguerite Tarrant, who was the leading lady in the Harvard Drmatic Club's production of The Lady's Not for Burning; and Erich Segal, known for his roles in Hasty Pudding Theatricals productions...
...copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of down-to-earth business details plus the bargaining excitement of a Turkish bazaar, a fictional cast of heroes, villains and gulls-and even a bit of suspense. If a million dollars is not forthcoming in the author's promised 20-year span, one has the publisher's semi-facetious word for it that the price of the book will be refunded...
...look at, especially in Dorothy Jeakins' lovely costumes. And she is a beautiful creature to listen to; being an accomplished musician, she is able to capture most of the music as well as the meaning of the lines, a goal that still eludes the other members of the cast. And, when necessary, she can trumpet forth a "Blistered by they tongue For such a wish!" that tingles the spine...