Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limb. In Cologne, Germany, arrested for sitting in a tree in the rain and peeking at a girl through her window, a man explained that he intended to propose to someone but wanted to be sure she was a good housekeeper...
...Europe, which is becoming unified in a way Good Europeans never conceived. See FOREIGN NEWS...
...reason seemed both simple and sensible: foreclosed from a political future, he can hardly be accused of political motivation in advancing his program. "I'm not talking about politics," he said recently. "I'm talking about the good of the country, and I'll fight it out on those terms." Political opponents, especially those who wear their ambitions on their sleeves, find it dangerous to criticize a President with a clear claim to serving the national interest without hope of electoral reward. If, for example, Democratic presidential hopefuls were to launch a plainly partisan attack, the President...
...about Administration aims, and the President gets an accurate and detailed picture of congressional sentiment. Under Halleck's predecessor. Massachusetts' doughty old (74) Joe Martin, and the Senate's obstructionist G.O.P. Leader William Knowland, it hardly seemed possible for Ike to keep his congressional fences in good or der. This year, with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate, the Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill work as an effective team. The weekly legislative conference has passed from pain to pleasure. "These sessions are getting to be so much...
Always Available. For a young Republican Congressman in a hurry, the New Deal days were pretty good ones. The Republican ranks were pitifully thin. The party was about as low in spirit as it could get. A newcomer with energy and ability was bound to attract notice -and Halleck had both energy and ability. "I immediately got active on the floor," he recalls, "and whatever assignment I got, I immediately went to work on it. And I hunted around for places to do things." Before long he had earned the nickname "Available Charlie.'' He was clearly a comer...