Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halleck, at home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...keep bumping into a stone wall? asked New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson of fellow Senate Democrats one afternoon last week. Clint Anderson's stone wall was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, whose strong position on issues back home loomed higher and higher, even while Ike himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that...
...youngsters. "Where's Frenchy?" demanded one. Nobody knew, although some were aware that cocky Frenchy Cordero, from downtown, had recently been chased out of the neighborhood after he tried to sell marijuana to a Clinton woman. The intruders withdrew. Scared, the Clinton kids decided to hurry on home. But as they started to go, the invaders appeared again...
...with a 17-year-old married sister whose husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left home weeks before to roam the streets and prey on homosexuals and hopheads who wander through the slum areas...
...ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood an old claw-legged bathtub that could accommodate a couple of good friends. On some evenings, Beatnik Author Lawrence Lipton, whose book, The Holy Barbarians, heralds "Venice West" as the new home of beatdom, read his cool poetry against a jazz background. It was like crazy...