Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep bumping into a stone wall? asked New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson of fellow Senate Democrats one afternoon last week. Clint Anderson's stone wall was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, whose strong position on issues back home loomed higher and higher, even while Ike himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that...
...Habit. That victory could hardly have been achieved by the enfeebled sort of fellow that Ike was still pictured, in some circles, as being. In fact, allowing for the natural increment of years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn...
...remember the day when, boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise in 1940, he, as a photographer, was sent below with the enlisted men, while his companions, writers, were berthed in "officers' country." Today, even if the same discrimination were still being practiced, Writer Mydans could move in with his fellow writers...
...Upstairs (English). "A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down...
...purgatory, at times in hell, everywhere creating fantastic visions compounded of memories of life, and odds and ends of curious reading. At one point, he is in an elaborate casino which illustrates the sordid side of man's instinct for gain; again, he and his fellow travelers find themselves in a terrifying place where there are only the skeletons of women, but walking skeletons who are taken sexually by visiting soldiers. The travelers visit many lands of the mind and spirit, but never do they find their souls...