Word: dewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dew of innocence in its eye, the fires of youth in its breast, the 86th Congress this week was still in the beginning of its beginning. It was the most heavily Democratic Congress since the glad, gone days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist...
...certain as Congress is Congress (and Article I of the Constitution still says that it is), before too many months some of the dew will have dried and some of the fires banked. The U.S., in the wonderful sum total of its governmental parts, will be operating on a reasonably down-to-earth basis. And one of the big reasons will be that improbable stabilizer called the House of Representatives...
...that budget were all the plans and programs of the U.S. for the next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like pie in the sky, and Lyndon Johnson was gone clean out of this world. But the U.S. will probably keep on at a straight, steady pace...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $659.8 million, including the SAGE electronic air-defense system, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, the "White Alice" Alaskan communications system, ICBM guidance systems...
...delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...