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...Cabinet members that his mind was made up; he told them his plan of action. He set the timing himself: he would make a nationwide broadcast to the people that night, personally take specific emergency anti-strike proposals to Congress the next day. The usually cool Missourian had his dander up. Late in the day he had a swim and his periodic physical checkup. Reported his physician: the President's blood pressure was "way up yonder...
...prewar form, he was still confident: "There's no doubt about the final outcome of the tour. When I play him, he can't control the game at all; I'll either win or beat myself." Usually no self-bettor, Budge had his dander up this time, made a $1,000 side bet with Riggs. Said he: "I'm betting with Riggs because he's always talking about betting and I'd just like to rub his face...
Montreal's McGill University skiers had their dander up. For 29 years they had played second fiddle to Dartmouth. They practiced long and hard, sometimes at night, on Mount Royal's icy slopes. By last week, as one of eleven competing teams at Dartmouth's own Winter Carnival, they were ready to spank Dartmouth where it hurt most...
Bishop De Wolfe's doctrinal dander rose when the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the Protestant Council of New York City distributed 300,000 copies of a pamphlet containing the Rockefeller speech. In a pastoral letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur...
Thanks to Burking, which got the public dander up more than simple grave-robbing had done, laws were passed in the 18305, allowing doctors to dissect unclaimed bodies. Today British and U.S. laws provide for such dissection under certain strict rules: e.g., after dissection, a medical school must give the remains a decent, religious burial...