Word: handed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Against. Against the formidable Taft, who had had his hand in virtually every important piece of domestic legislation acted on by the 80th and 81st Congresses, none of these possible Democratic candidates appeared to loom very large. But the opposition recalled how Taft had barely squeaked through against William Pickrel, a comparatively unknown Dayton lawyer, in 1944. Pickrel had faithfully echoed the policies of F.D.R. Since then Taft had made enemies by his astringent honesty, had probably lost some friends by doggedly following his conscience. The anti-Taft forces counted on a majority of Ohioans voting not for somebody...
...months as Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, no man to show his hand, has dropped a few hints of what Canada can expect from him during his five-year term as his country's leader. On Parliament Hill, top-level government men have already labeled him "the most efficient Prime Minister Canada ever had." He has speeded up the poky, 19th Century office routine of Mackenzie King. Decisions come down so fast that his aides often worry that St. Laurent is too hasty. Cracked one: "What Mr. King needed was an animator; what St. Laurent needs is a brake...
...Protestant culture. The Protestant holds that every soul is accountable to God, that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes, and that, in the long run, where there is spiritual independence, truth can be trusted to emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type of organized religion which, because of certain implacable assumptions, claims not merely equality of life and opportunity, but dominance . . . [It] claims ... to be the only church of Christ . . . Bluntly, this means that Rome regards Protestantism as a perversion of Christianity. In every...
Clark had had a hand in getting out the Air Forces' high-flying Air Surgeons' Bulletin, and knew what he wanted. As editor he hired a fellow Texan, Russell Walters Cumley, a Ph.D. (biology) jack of all trades. They talked the state's Department of Health and the Texas Division of the American Cancer Society into buying one-year subscriptions for all the state's 7,300 doctors. Their small staff threw off all restraint in writing about cancer...
Hair on the Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...