Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nelson. The case was brought before the Supreme Court by one Willard C.Uphaus, head of a pacifist, left-wing organization called World Fellowship, Inc., who had refused to produce a list of guests at a fellowship summer camp when asked for it by New Hampshire's Attorney General during an investigation authorized by the state legislature. Ordered by state courts to hand over the list or go to jail, Uphaus appealed, relying heavily on Nelson...
...gallantly silent in public while trying to figure out in private what to do about a delicate problem of senatorial courtesy and chivalry. The problem: a campaign by Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, the Senate's only lady member, to block a fourth star for Air Force Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., named last month to command the Pacific Air Forces. The Smith-O'Donnell feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier general in the Air Force...
...given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...
Earlier Retirement. While only a handful called for a general wage increase (average demand: 12½? or 15? an hour), many a worker wanted to wipe out wage inequities and sweeten fringe benefits...
Like the Army. On the strike issue, the steelworkers seemed to break generally into two classes. The strong young workers talked tall ("If there's a strike, I'll just go on vacation-I don't give a damn"), yet were unsure of what to strike for ("What we need is a six-hour day, a 34-hour week"). But the seasoned older workers, who well know the belt-tightening frustration of past long strikes, feared another one. Said one Pittsburgh worker: "Some workers even wish the President would seize the mills rather than prolong the agony...