Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The House, after complicated wrangling, scheduled a vote this week on the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (which neither party likes). Speaker Rayburn set the vote to shift blame for inaction on the bill from Democratic shoulders to Republican, i.e., he would blame the G.O.P. when a motion to suspend...
But on the ABC show, says Jack, "a fellow named Ernie Walker ruined me. He sold the network a bill of goods that he had a machine to analyze comedians." Walker's machine reported that Jack got laughs all right but that he had no character, like Benny'...
Bid 'n' Buy (CBS), an imitator of NBC's successful The Price Is Right, is perhaps the most artful personification of greed among the new crop of grab-the-swag shows. Hosted by Cyclonic Ham Bert Parks in the guise of an auctioneer, the show parcels out...
Such an engine, said Rocketdyne, will be the first designed deliberately for true space flight (the current U.S. lunar-probe projects plan to use a combination of existing military rocket engines). The big, single-chamber engine has major advantages. When more than four engines are clustered together, their pumps, fuel...
It was not just a banquet; it was "one of the landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true...