Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granddaddy of them all, Rhode Island's 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green, was certain that such an attack by a national chairman on fellow Democrats was "most unusual and, I believe, completely without precedent." A member of the National Committee himself, Green sternly warned Butler not to use his office as "a gun pit from which to fire on Democratic candidates...
...Shakespeare was a pretty imaginative fellow. And director Berghof is one of the most acutely imaginative men in the business (as any one of his recent productions will testify). Put the two men together, and the result was bound to be unusual and worth careful examination...
...prepared to give up their struggle. They are in the delicate position of supporting Kassem's regime while trying to capture it. Last week, ignoring Kassem's pointed request that party activities cease, the Communists announced formation of a National Union Front, which includes themselves, fellow travelers from Kurdish parties, and what they called some dissident elements from the National Democratic Party (which had taken Kassem's hint and ceased politicking). On behalf of this Front, the Communists were once again demanding seats in the Cabinet. "This represents a historic turning point in the evolution...
...with Harvard's Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Edward Purcell (in '52, for nuclear magnetic measurement), Ewen developed and built equipment to locate and trace hydrogen clouds several hundred thousand light years distant from earth. This resulted in no less than a remapping of the solar system. With a fellow scientist's $1,000 and his own theories, Ewen started his company in 1952. turned out radiometers (receiving systems for radio telescopes), radio sextants, microwave components. Last year Ewen Knight chalked up $2,000,000 in sales, expects $3,500,000 this year...
...Iron Butt. It was at law school, too, that Nixon earned a fellow student's compliment: "You've got an iron butt, and that's the secret of becoming a lawyer.'' The Mazo biography recalls once again that many who have tried to kick Nixon have only succeeded in stubbing their toes on that iron butt. He has been lucky, but he also managed to escape numerous brushes with political disaster thanks to political skill and courage. Mazo reports, for instance, how in 1956 Eisenhower suggested to Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post...