Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium...
...Climb Aboard?'', said the New Republic, "seems to say a Republican President, able to keep the more aggressive anti-Communists of his own party in line, can best move towards the peace abroad that is ours for the asking." Indeed the Nation said more: in an oblique flick at Stevenson, it warned that the problems of peace are now so touchy that the U.S. could not "tolerate much knight errantry." The Nation's concluding advice to liberals: don't get committed until Ike declares his intentions; then wait to see what Earl Warren decides, and then...
...heavy course schedule on top of several other activities keeps me chained to my desk on Saturday afternoons. Yet when a muffled roar from the Stadium filters back to my room, I'd like to be able to flick on my radio to hear the score...
...build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate? He would and he did. With a flick of his thumb, Johnson signaled to presiding senators whom to recognize-speakers who would not antagonize Southerners or be trapped by Republicans. A twirl of Johnson's lifted forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll...
...lash of an eye, a flick of the wrist...