Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of the House one afternoon last week, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills manfully walked over and reached out a congratulatory hand to Republican Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois. Arends smiled broadly, said: "Sorry to do this to you, Wilbur." What Arends and his G.O.P. colleagues had done was indeed worth a handshake. With a remarkable rebuke to Ways & Means Chairman Mills, the House, after two days of strenuous debate, voted down a $1.5 billion Democratic proposal for extending unemployment compensation benefits that President Eisenhower had called "a dole." Passed instead, with minor revisions, was the moderate $587 million bill originally...
Back to the Brink. At voting time ten hands around the semicircular council table went up in favor of the U.S. resolution ; Sobolev sat impassively, his hands folded in his lap. A moment later, by raising his hand in opposition, he delivered Russia's 83rd U.N. veto. Then, when Sobolev dusted off his old resolution denouncing U.S. Arctic flights and calling for an immediate unprepared summit conference, the council glumly rejected it 9 to i, with Sweden abstaining...
...Party Secretary Petr Pospelov attacked the fallen "antiparty group" by name for their "fierce resistance." Finally, Khrushchev himself joined vigorously and enthusiastically in the denunciations, and, in a speech on agriculture at Kiev, singled out Georgy Malenkov as "one of the main culprits" responsible as Stalin's right hand and successor "for all shortcomings...
...other singles position will be Tim Gallwey, Ned Weld, Al Goldman, Fred Vinton, and Bill Wood. Weld, however, has been suffering from an injured hand, and may not play. Pete Krogh will join the starting lineup if Weld cannot play...
...other hand, much will depend on the injured leg of Eli dash star, Steve Snyder, who against Princeton last week was forced to take a standing start...