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...some of its members delivered. Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word: "You don't overcome evil by evil. Let the record speak for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Place in History | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...even this backfired. Judge Porter said Hummon's protests reminded him of a story: "An Irishman was kicked by a jackass and someone asked what he was going to do about it. 'Nothing,' the Irishman replied, 'I just consider the source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Fly Time | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...with false credentials, fancy bombs, trick cameras, and guns disguised as pipes to befuddle the Germans. All sorts of little things, such as being sure to keep the fork in the left hand on account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...bystander in the background was, at worst, only a jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Every animal seemed satisfied except a cynical old jackass named Benjamin, the only animal who could read as well as the pigs. When asked how he liked the dictatorship of the animals, he merely observed: "Donkeys live a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dictatorship of the Animals | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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