Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full of rivers-and-harbors projects and other fat goodies dear to politicians of both parties. Rayburn whipped all but six Democrats into a rare moment of unity, but failed by one vote to override. Two days later, still seething over the defeat of their House colleagues, Senate Democrats sharply attacked when an Eisenhower courier flew back from Europe with a veto for the second fat housing bill they have passed this year. Exploiting the peak moment of indignation, crafty Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called for an immediate vote to override...
Urgent Appeal. When the news of the defeat finally reached Vientiane, something like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya...
...Orthodox delegates held out to the end against the proposed merger between the W.C.C. and the International Missionary Council. Though they did not actually try to defeat the measure, they abstained from the vote that tentatively approved the plan, pending formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only...
...Ruse for Life. For a photographer, this is a remarkable book in one respect: there is not a picture between the covers. It is a book of memories and responses-to men dying on a dozen fronts, to crushing defeat and stirring victory, to sights that stretch a man's capacity to endure with sanity, and to simple gestures of humanity under pressure that are reminders of what is noble in man. Mydans' first taste of war came on the Finnish-Russian front in 1940. It is typical of him that he does not rehash the politics...
...bull-necked Cepeda and the wondrous McCovey. Out in centerfield, Willie Mays, 28, is beginning to make the awesome plays in Seals Stadium that he used to pull off in the Polo Grounds. Most important of all perhaps, the Giants have a grim determination to win. After a defeat, the team's locker room bristles with fury...