Word: corncob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cannon complained on the floor of the House that over the past nine years the Administration budgetmakers have underestimated the red ink by a net total of $37.5 billion. "They were feasting on the delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black ink has since changed into a massive blotch of red, currently estimated at $8.8 billion. With that in mind, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman...
Puffing on a corncob pipe, Powell complained: "I told them the House wasn't going to move any sort of legislation like this. It's too late, and they're tired. I told this to the Speaker. I told it to everybody...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...documents, his 123 U.S. and foreign decorations, battle trophies and gifts from the great, and the 126 battle flags that have unfurled over his soldier's career. On the collection's lighter side: the general's special gold-braided cap, his old sunglasses and his favorite corncob pipe...