Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie Halleck is mighty sorry that he ever bit into this apple," chortled a House Democratic leader last week. "They've picked the worst possible issue to fight us on and we're going to lick 'em...
Lick 'em they did. Next day the House approved a $450 million appropriation for emergency public works, which had only a few days before been voted down by the House Appropriations Committee. Minority Leader Halleck, who had led a party-line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...
...office: "One top-level mediator said Mr. Bradford brought an attitude of such icy disdain into the conference room that the mediator often felt he ought to ask the hotel to send up more heat." The publishers' attitude, Raskin quoted one observer as complaining, was always "Give 'em nothing-and do it retroactively...
...Rudolph has ordered all parked cars moved from the city's main arteries and from some of the secondary streets. If this law were obeyed, there would not be enough space in the city to accommodate Cambridge's 37,440 vehicles. When asked about the situation, Rudolph suggested, "Let'em find a place." or that Cambridge build garages to accommodate cars during a "Snow Emergency." The city probably will not build garages for Rudolph...
...anxious to win games and to understand his players. But his apparent conception of the coach's role as a low pressure, passive adviser often produces an attitude which the team interprets as either negative or apathetic. His attitude rarely produces in his teams any of the "go get 'em" close-knit team spirit which, interestingly enough, is so characteristic of Harvard's freshman teams...