Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pork Barrel. At height of recession flap, Congress rushed through a monstrous pork-barrel (rivers & harbors) bill authorizing $1.7 billion for construction projects, some without engineering studies. An Eisenhower veto brought back a more reasonable bill, which the President, somewhat reluctantly, okayed...
SOUNDING clean and clear through the flap and fuzzy thought about Middle East crisis, Week Two, was the calm counsel of a naval historian and philosopher who died 44 years ago. His name: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S. Navy (1840-1914). His counsel, delivered at century's turning point in brilliant books, such as The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 and The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, was that the U.S. national interest was to secure overseas bases, trade routes, to guard them with unbeatable military power. In his day and since...
During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
Ottawans had difficulty picking out the Secret Service operatives around the President. But the security problem managed to generate a first-class flap when an Ottawa cab driver reported that two men, one of them carrying what could have been a rifle case, had left his cab near the golf course where Ike was playing a round with three companions. Notified of the cab driver's suspicions, Ike calmly finished his round (score: 89) while a detail of Mounties beat the surrounding bushes in a vain search for the suspicious strangers...
...retaliation or penalty." But McElroy reserves the right to be "disappointed or regretful" over their views. Implication between the lines: an officer who sharply takes issue with the President and the Defense Secretary cannot expect them to like it-or forget it. Russell pronounces himself satisfied. End of flap...