Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House defeat of the President's request for a $25 million reinsurance fund to back up non-Government health insurance plans, e.g., Blue Cross and similar organizations. This was an important item: a week before the bill reached the House, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby, after being introduced by the President, plugged it in a nationwide broadcast from the White House. G.O.P. leaders had expected the bill to pass easily. But when the votes were counted, 162 Democrats, 75 Republicans and Ohio's Independent Frazier Reams had joined in recommitting...
...night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the Northerners. On the afternoon of July 3, Major General George E. Pickett led 15,000 Confederates on a gallant but ill-advised charge into the teeth of well-positioned Federal infantry...
Last week the U.S. took a big step toward that fuller control. On Cincinnati's outskirts, Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby dedicated a six-story laboratory building for the U.S. Public Health Service, gave it the mouthfilling name of Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center. Said Mrs. Hobby: "Sanitary engineering had its origins in [man's] first crude efforts to gather and store rainwater for drinking purposes and to dispose of wastes effectively." It is still concerned with the same problems, though in different forms...
...General William F. Dean said that he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity . . . I shudder to think of the situation that would exist within the armed forces ... if it became commonly acceptable for all military men to gulp the "Dean bean" that they have been gingerly carrying around with them in their watch pocket for use when in danger...
...door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp, the lucky Madrileno would swallow it, claws, beak...