Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 3 p.m. in Washington, nearly 10:30 a.m. in Hawaii 5,000 miles away. In the House chamber of the Capitol, the debate rattled on, while off the floor, two men placed two separate long-distance calls to Honolulu. One was the Territory's twelfth appointed Governor, Republican William F. Quinn, who was calling Acting Governor Edward E. Johnston. The other was Democratic Territorial Delegate John Burns, who got through to Territorial House Speaker Elmer F. Cravalho, who was standing on the dais in the assembly chambers of Hawaii's lolani Palace...
...Alaska's victory softened almost all further opposition; even Sam Rayburn, long opposed to Hawaiian statehood, decided to go along. And even Virginia's stubborn Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith had seen the handwriting on the bill, decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan...
Next morning the other airmen of his crew, coming on duty for a routine day's work, found the body on the chamber floor. His suicide note asked them not to condemn him for using the chamber to kill himself; if he told his motive, the Air Force wasn't telling. Moore became the fourth airman in 17 years, recall air medical officers at other bases, to seek death deliberately at a simulated height, perhaps the first man in history killed above 63,000 ft. by boiling blood...
...Vienna, one of Koch's most efficient killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear witnesses describe how he held Jewish children under his arm while blowing their brains out with a pistol. Likely sentence: life imprisonment...
...Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...