Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky Colavito, home-run hitter for the Cleveland Indians, is a favorite with the fans for more than his hitting because...
...roughest, bitterest brawl of the 86th Congress. Into Washington poured sacks full of mail from the folks back home. Lobbyists swarmed through Capitol corridors. Worried Congressmen cussed, consulted and conspired. Moving toward a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives was the year's most intensely debated legislation: a labor bill aimed at ending the racketeering and hoodlumism that had become all too evident in some unions, especially the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters under its president, James Riddle Hoffa. The House had three choices before...
Then trouble flared up where Sam Rayburn should least expect it-deep in the heart of his own 20-man Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...
...last December, it became clear to the townfolk that the only citizen who was making any profit out of Cabazon was Mayor Tallent. An opposition group, the Civic Improvement Association, began to gather recruits. The anti-Tallent cause was helped when Riverside County deputy sheriffs raided Tallent's home, claimed they found and photographed him nude in bed with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think you'd find one man in twelve...
Bucolic Charm. Mama Proust called little Marcel "mon petit loup," but far from being wolflike, he was a Little Lord Fauntleroy who threw temper tantrums and suffered from asthma. Much of Proust's boyhood had bucolic charm. At Illiers (Combray in the novel), Dr. Proust's home town, the family romped along the hawthorn hedges of the Méréglise Way (later Swann's Way) or ambled along a winding river (later the Guermantes Way). On the lawns of the Champs Elysées, the 14-year-old played at prisoner's base...