Word: floor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, only a few Senators were opposed to the bill itself. Their case was sketchily made by Nevada's George Malone, who waved a Japanese-made Kewpie doll and shouted across an all-but-empty Senate floor: "We are importing unemployment." Ohio's forthright Robert A. Taft got down to fundamentals. "The issue is whether we believe in free trade or we don't," he said bluntly. "I do not believe in free trade. I agree that the whole world would be better off on the average. But the U.S. would be worse off. We would average...
...Fourth floor residents will particularly welcome the elevator lift. This convenience was a particular attraction at dormpicking time last Spring to students who lived on top stories of other dormtores...
...Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...
...home-town pride. Detroit refused to join, and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh have not yet decided whether to come in. But brokers in the other cities liked the idea. Instead of trading in only 14 stocks-as on the Minneapolis Exchange-the consolidated bourse would give Minneapolis floor traders 500 to deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares; a little-known stock like St. Louis...
Instead, St. Peter's 1,900-year-old bones were said to have been found in a plain terra cotta urn less than 20 feet below the floor of the cathedral, surrounded by scattered gold coins of the period when Peter died. Since their discovery, Reporter Cianfarra was told, the bones have been guarded by the Pope himself, in the private chapel next to his study. As the Italian press took off with a whir of speculation, the Vatican was significantly careful neither to confirm nor deny the New York Times story. Summarizing an article titled "Premature News...