Word: dingdong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real fight remained and would continue to be waged right up to Election Day-the fight for control of the Senate (TIME, Oct. 11). It was still such a dingdong race in twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much...
...Dingdong Chimes. At twilight on his first day in Bali, a flock of pigeons circled over McPhee, trailing behind them a shining rain of silver music. Tiny bells were tied to the pigeons' feet and bamboo whistles were attached to their tails...
Good shots: Bergman teaching a small boy to box; Crosby adding to his singing repertory of Latin with O Sanctissima, and embellishing the nuns' dingdong chorus of The Bells of St. Mary's with a low-down "Ring dem bells...
...Kenneth McKellar, was making another assault on TVA, which enrages him because its thousands of jobs are not open to patronage appointments. He had hung 16 legislative amendments on an appropriation bill (which is almost never vetoed), mainly in an effort to throw jobs open to politics. After a dingdong battle, he gave up all but one amendment, but that one was plenty. The Senate, flailing away, was trying to decide anew an ancient question: Can such amendments be germane to an appropriation bill...
...Civil War's dingdong battle for West Virginia, when the wounded and the dying of the Union and Confederate armies were laid in rows in the glittering ballroom at White Sulphur Springs-depending on which side held the hotel-this resort nestling in the Alleghenies had already been famed for half a century. Its great colonial hotel, known familiarly as The White, had been built a decade earlier. Before that there were rows of cottages-Paradise Row for the newlyweds, Alabama and Georgia Rows for the rich from those States, Wolf Row for the bachelors...