Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boatings: varsity: Joe Brown, bow; Sam Allen, 2; Ted Barret, 3; Frank Benson, 4; Bill Wetmore, 5; Ray Burns, 6; Lindy Watkins,7; Jerry Wells, stroke; Bill Chadwick, cox. Junior varsity; Oakes Ames, bow; Jack Beggs, 2; Dick Gillies, 3; Ted House, 4; John Margan, 5; Art Herbst, 6; Stan Kabrl,7; Dick Lincoln, stroke; Joe Gordon, cox. Freshman: Ben LaFarge, bow; Tony Barnard, 2; Paul Schlaiker, 3; Dan Rakov, 4; Randy Seed, 5; Joe Cole, 6; Ralph Blum, 7; Lowell Laporet, stroke; Bruce Williams cox...
Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox was in a black and angry mood. "I am sorry to bother you," he wrote last week to ten fellow members of the House Rules Committee, "but at the insistence of the Speaker, I have called a meeting of the Rules Committee for tomorrow morning at 10:30 to give consideration . . . [to] the wheat bill for India...
...subject that Goober Cox hated to be bothered about, or to bother anyone else about, was the possibility of several million people starving to death in India. For seven weeks, Gene Cox and his little clique had smothered the relief bill in committee. But now church groups across the nation were demanding action. So were many people who saw no reason why Communist China, with famine on its own hands, should harvest a psychological victory by supplying India with grain, while the U.S., which has a wheat surplus, was denying it to a nation in need. Speaker of the House...
...committee debate next morning raged loud & long. Goober Cox, after two hours of haranguing his committee ("A vote for this bill," he snorted, "is a vote of confidence in Acheson"), was surprised and disgruntled to find himself almost alone in opposition. He didn't even bother to vote and the bill was reported...
Freshmen-stroke, LaPorte; 7, Schlaikjer; 6, Cole; 5, Seed; 4, Barnard; 3, Blum; 2, Watson; bow, Harrington; cox, Williams...