Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bracing his lanky Texas frame against his polished first-row desk, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson early one evening last week delivered his latest plea for nonpartisanship in the U.S. Senate. He had a good partisan reason. Far from indulging in nonpartisanship as Lyndon likes it, Republican Senators were heightening their resistance to pell-mell Democratic antirecession spending...
Official Russia, with an eye cocked to the propaganda values of Cliburn's triumph, was just as ecstatic. At a Kremlin reception, squat Premier Nikita Khrushchev threw his arms about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care...
...contest started shakily, as Johnson balked in a run from third in the first frame, and the Judges took a 2-1 lead with a single tally in the third. It was not until the fourth that the home forces took complete control, unleashing a four-run outburst...
From that time on, the boy operating the scoreboard could hardly keep track. The Crimson added a run in the fifth, two in the sixth, and four in the seventh. The eighth frame saw 11 varsity batters walk to the plate to bat, and eight of them paid it another trip as they scored...
...recently said: "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." He began to straighten out the temporary situation of 1947 with As the Girls Go, which opened-a scant year after bankruptcy-on money provided by angels whose faith in Mike was unshaken. Todd invested early in Cinerama, sold out and invested in Todd-AO, sold his interest in this successful process to help finance 80 Days. He wanted everything to be big, fast, spectacular. On the first anniversary of 80 Days, he threw a party...