Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people see?" trumpeted Senator Charles Tobey in the first flush of satisfaction over the televised Kefauver hearings. With equal enthusiasm, Manhattan's Congressman Jacob Javits wanted TV to sit in on major congressional debates just as it does on U.N. sessions, argued that it would be essentially no different from "expanding the size of the gallery of the House." Representative Edwin Hall (N.Y.) urged that all sessions of Congress be televised...
...movie surrounds Hope with a whole gallery of Runyon types sporting names like Gloomy Willie (William Frawley) and Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...
...guerrilla movement, in the present flush of revulsion against the Red government, totals more than 1,500,000 men. Its members fall into four categories...
...investigations progressed, many criticized his tendency to bugle off on any side trail in search of a headline, and his scattergun methods which seemed to flush many birds but drop few of them. Some, like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And many professional crimebusters took a slightly amused view of the committee's melodramatic approach to the Mafia, a scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation...
Meanwhile, Sugar's long left fist had been poking out, flush and regularly, into the solid features of Jake the Bull; Jake began to show signs of wear. In the ninth, Sugar turned loose his right. From then on, the question was not whether Jake could win but whether he could preserve his ten-year record of never having been knocked flat...