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Word: fishbait (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...precisely 12:31 one day last week, William Moseley ("Fishbait") Miller, Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, rose and raised a stentor's voice: "Mistuh Speakuh: the President of the United States." To the standing applause of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower (carefully shirted in television blue) strode to the rostrum. He was beginning two difficult years of business with a Congress organized by an opposition party that had one main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Steady | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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