Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed rule and open the bill to crippling, log-rolling amendments. West Virginia's Bailey led off: "Mr. Speaker, once again the duly elected members of the House find themselves under a threat of an undemocratic and un-American gag-rule procedure." The House seats began to fill up. Republican Leader Joe Martin slouched back in his place, a forefinger pushed up on his temple. Beside him sat G.O.P. Whip Leslie Arends, nervously looking around the chamber. On the Democratic side, Majority Leader John McCormack huddled with aides. When the vote came-on a motion to consider the amendment...
Rhinestone Yo-Yos. COMPRE HOY Y PAGUE MANANA! shouts a huge sign atop Sears, Roebuck's mammoth Caracas department store: BUY TODAY AND PAY TOMORROW! On time payments, women in pipeless hillside shanties buy U.S.-made washing machines, and happily lug water in buckets on their heads to fill them. Specialty shops sell canned Spanish cuttlefish, rhinestone-studded yo-yos, TV sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis...
Charles E. Parkhurst, instructor in Public Speaking, will fill the position of Executive Adviser on Debating, beginning immediately. Parkhurst has been acting as faculty adviser to the Debate Council for a year and a half...
Carl J. Friederich, professor of Government, will fly to Italy Sunday on a month's leave of absence to give lectures at Italian universities. He will fill invitations to speak on political theory at Rome, Florence, Milan, Turin, and Naples...
...addition to Yale since they wanted an Eastern education, and had no possible assurance they could make Yale. An enthusiastic Harvard alumnus took them to Cambridge to interview Bill Bender, the Dean of Admissions. Ralph's application for a scholarship to Harvard was sent home to his mother to fill...