Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bypassed Phantoms. The gas bill's supporters, anxious to get it passed and rid gas producers of federal supervision, were aghast. The contribution to Case, suggested Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, was a "dead cat" planted by an opponent of the bill so as to cast suspicion on all Senators voting for the measure. And, snapped Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, Case had better be ready to detail his charges "if he expects to stay in public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote...
...full-page editorial that his utterances on the discrimination issue had been "inadequate . . . fragmentary and uninspired." At Miami Beach, where the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther said Stevenson was "dead wrong this time." Moaned James Carey, chairman of the civil rights committee: "He wants the nomination, but he's setting up the election for Nixon...
Prinney spent his wedding night dead drunk and ended up on the edge of the fireplace, where his bride let him sleep it off undisturbed. After the birth of their child and heir, Princess Charlotte, nine months later, the future King of England sent Caroline formal notification that he would require no further wifely duties...
...Guard). When indignant students tried to march on Law Dean Manuel Torres López' office, Falange sticks and clubs swung. The centurions were chased from the law school. Students tore down the bulletin-board notice and destroyed the Falangist arrows above a commemorative plaque to student war dead...
Many scholars, admittedly without the information Allegro has in his possession, would hesitate to make such sweeping generalizations. The Very Rev. John J. Dougherty, Immaculate conception Seminary, Darlington, New Jersey, has warned that it is far too early "to pontificate on the precise meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls on specific scientific questions, particularly questions of a historical character...