Word: eve
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, on the eve of the biggest battle of the session, the heat was on some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that...
...rudimentary Russian on the crowd in the gardens, Kozlov topped him by commenting in rudimentary English: "Very good." Then, recalling that the Peterhofs 560 statues had been buried for safety during the Nazis' World War II siege of the city, Kozlov pointed to figures of Adam and Eve, separated by a wide garden, and cracked: "Adam and Eve are always separated, but during the war we buried them together...
...Adam and Eve created a lot of trouble," replied Nixon, deadpan. "Oh," protested a member of the crowd, "they created the world." "That," smiled Nixon, "is what I mean...
...When he was finally ready, he had his wife's blessing, his mother's permission (a monastery entrance requirement) and a leave of absence from his boss, the Thai government. As is customary, his family gave a lavish party, inviting more than 100 well-wishers on the eve of the journey. Then at 7 a.m. the next day, all began the procession to the temple. A brass band thumped the sendoff, and while Jerm traveled aboard a slow-moving Jeep, young girls carried candles, Jerm's mother brought his saffron robe, an uncle (his father is dead...
SHADOW OF GUILT, by Patrick Quenfin (211 pp.; Random House; $2.95), has a hero who is both a stuffed shirt and a weakling. He hesitates to tell his wife, a beautiful, bustling, overbearing heiress, that he wants to divorce her and marry his secretary, a colorless, clinging type named Eve. This triangular time bomb is the dominant theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder...