Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party's legislative ideals, "and let the chips and vetoes fall where they may." And as Paul Butler and smiling Lyndon Johnson nodded agreement, Texan Sam Rayburn added meaningfully: "We agreed with Mr. Butler that we will call him when we have something to tell him, and when he wants to talk with us, he will call...
...hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought so too: last week, after a bitter parliamentary debate, the Democrats used their...
...goal, which is a perfectly legitimate one, she resorts to a long concatenation of sins, big and small, on the theory--expressed in the play's title--that the end justifies the means. Through this policy, Helena's nobility and honor are tarnished; and she undergoes a tragic "fall" into one humiliating circumstance after another. Comedy? Not on your life; this is serious business indeed...
Leaders of the joint expedition emphasized the importance of the discovery, the most important one this year. Archeologists pinpointed the city, the former capital of the fabled Croesus, only last fall...
...narcotics; the switchboard was taken over by a telephone operator who claimed to read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes and then I'd go to sleep...