Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...littered office at Republican national headquarters one day last week, a worn G.O.P. tactician looked up from his master list of congressional districts, nervously reshuffled the foot-high pile of reports on his desk and breathed: "Thank God it isn't next week." Only a few blocks away at Democratic national headquarters, a party tactician jauntily swung his feet up on his desk, carefully straightened his tie (miniature dogs-in honor of Charlie Wilson-on a black back ground) and sighed: "Oh, if it were only next week...
...Lesson Learned. It was nighttime when Charlie Wilson returned to Washington after his eventful five-day trip. He was the last passenger off the Capital Airlines plane, which flew in through a squall from Chicago. The reporters were waiting. Asked about Eisenhower, he said: "I hope he isn't worried about it all -he's got enough to worry about." Asked about Republican chances in the November election, he grinned. "I think," he said, "I've proven I'm not a politician...
...that holds good. They have taken from us neither ships, nor cannons, nor a foot of land; they treated our prisoners with great humanity; they have given us 40 billion lire [$65 million]. Unfortunately all these claims on our gratitude are obscured by one defect of which there isn't the slightest hope that Americans can be cured because it's in their blood, it's constitutional. It is the craze for improving us, for making us try to be in every way kinder to each other, juster, richer, happier...
...taste has led a friend to call her "half the explanation for Billy Graham." "Not a day goes by," says Ruth, "when I don't ask the Lord for wisdom: how to bring up the children, how to make this suit, how to do this and that. It isn't really mystical . . . It's practical...
...majority stockholder of the famed, Victorian-flavored Palace Hotel, which is being taken over by Boston's Sheraton Corp. Said Mrs. Johnston, who was born in the Palace and whose family has owned the hotel all its 79 years: "It's the trend of the times, isn't it? All the great old hotels are going into chain operations...