Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improved Republican congressional record. In the somewhat unwieldy House, divided 233 Democrats and 200 Republicans (with two vacancies). Leader Joe Martin would just have to do the best he could-and Joe is a skilled veteran at getting what is possible. But it was in the Senate, cliff-hanging between 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans, that the G.O.P. had its best chance to demonstrate that it really believes in the kind of Republicanism that got Ike elected. And upon the massive shoulders of Senate Republican Leader William Knowland rests much of the responsibility for making the showing...
...Paul Smith conceded that Crowell-Collier had a "moral obligation" to make some kind of settlement. Readers of the magazine also were frustrated when they discovered that both magazines had suspended in the middle of serialized novels. At the end of the second installment of Collier's "Doom Cliff" by Luke Short, the hero had been left "drowning in an ocean of pain." But in Aspen, Colo., Author Short (real name: Fred Glidden) told telephoners what they might have guessed anyway: the hero recovers, kills off the bad guys and confides to the pretty hired girl that he will...
...Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...
...speaking to is Robert Taylor, vice chairman of the board. What the boss is trying to say is that Taylor, who is about to amalgamate with Little Miss Amalgamated, had better go to London first and tie up that $40 million deal with Carew, Ltd. "Believe me, Cliff," says Industrialist Ives with deep feeling, "the men who saved the world were never stopped by the Ten Commandments." Cliff replies with equally deep feeling: "I hope the day will come, sir, when I can be as truthful as that." Off he goes, looking smug, to save the world for the stockholders...
...glorious chapter in U.S. history. But as Author (The Wonderful Writing Machine) Bliven has pieced it together, with the help of period prints and maps showing the fighting in terms of today's streets and landmarks, his compact and lively book may be just the handy companion for cliff-dwelling strollers ready to look for history under the sidewalks of New York...