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Five Trips & a Kitty. The Congress refused to go the way Usher pointed, but it did heed the signal of another old hand. In the final stages, the bill still contained a provision for a tax-free special-expense account of $1,250 and an allowance for five extra round trips home every year. Just as the Senate was about to rush the bill through, Kentucky's Democratic Senator Alben Barkley rose to make his first speech since he returned to the Senate this year. In five minutes, Barkley made his point clear: These "petty, extraneous" provisions were...
...Krock of II Samuel 20:9-10, describing the meeting of Joab and Amasa at the great stone of Gibeon: "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he [Joab] smote him therewith in the fifth...
...partially crippled Hatoyama hobbled painfully up to a white pine altar at the entrance to the shrine, closed his eyes, bowed his head and paid silent attention to the sun goddess-and, in doing so, paid heed also to the votes of Japanese nationalists in the forthcoming general elections...
...their heads, East German Roman Catholic bishops sent a letter of protest to the East German puppet government. But Red Hilde says that "a judge must never follow his objective opinion, but must reach his verdict by calling on his political party." She was scarcely likely to read or heed protests...
...Indo-China and now it is the European Defense Community. In both cases there were warnings that at the best the prospects of success were slim, and that no time should be lost in preparing an alternative to fall back upon. Both times the Administration not only refused to heed the warnings but refused to consider, even hypothetically, what to do if the Navarre Plan or EDC proved unworkable. And so, having lashed ourselves to the mast, we have gone down twice with a sinking ship...