Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the humdrum buzz of the U.S. Senate caucus room, where a special committee met last week to consider censure action against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, rose a throaty monotone in a familiar refrain: "Just a minute, Mr. Chairman, just one minute...
...Caucauasu" was an Algonquian word meaning "elder" or "councilor." The Americans borrowed it and made it "caucus," meaning a party war council on the eve of battle. Last week, at Cincinnati, 125 Republican caucauasu caucused on the eve of battle. They called their meeting a "workshop," a term borrowed from universities, which had (quite unimaginatively) borrowed it from workshops. The chief Republican caucauasu at Cincinnati was Vice President Richard Nixon. "I do not come to you terribly optimistic or terribly pessimistic," said the Vice President to the Republican braves. "I think that this election is extremely close. We Republicans...
...battle was only beginning. The friends of EDC rallied, and the dispute that had raged in the caucus rooms and Parliament suddenly engulfed all France, and spread outwards in ever-widening circles to touch half the world...
...prescription came on a Democratic move to send back to committee the massive tax-revision bill. The Democrats wanted to raise individual exemptions and wipe out the proposed deductions of dividend income. Rather than argue his case on the House floor, which he does infrequently, Martin called a caucus of G.O.P. Congressmen...
...squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief that contained less than 450 pages...