Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screeching pause. Its legislative teeth had ground into a major Harry Truman campaign promise: to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. On the floor, Truman Democrats were locked over the issue with a stubborn and derisive coalition of Republicans and the Southern colleagues of Edward Hebert. Labor agents and lobbyists - close to 400 of them - packed the gal lery, patrolled the corridors. So did as many lobbyists of industry...
Johnson had not told that to the Marines. In fact, he seemed to be losing sight of the Marine airmen's one peculiar function: supporting Marine ground forces in amphibious operations. Marine air is the only flying arm specifically trained for close-in support of ground troops from carrier bases...
...enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley Jr.; from time to time Kelley brushed chewed fragments of Palmer's Life Savers from his hair...
...take up a family tragedy. For 28 months, said Hernan Santa Cruz, young Alvaro Cruz, son of a former Chilean ambassador at Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral outrage...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...