Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emerald Island. Meanwhile, the Senate was treading more cautiously. For some eight hours one day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees. At hand was a map of Formosa and the China coast, set on a metal tripod. The mainland was shown in a rich chocolate color, Formosa in emerald green. There were other maps, kept well covered and guarded by military personnel when not in use. It was a tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest...
...strong is Russia? Last week, in an analysis of comparative economic growth between the Iron Curtain and the Western powers, prepared for the Joint Congressional Committee on the Economic Report, the U.S. got an answer that went far beyond the usual statistics-numbers of divisions, fleets of bombers, supplies of atom bombs...
...White House, the Magloires moved across the street to Blair-Lee House, later laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Shortly after noon, the House of Representatives' doorkeeper boomed: "The President of the Republic of Haiti!" and Magloire strode in to address a joint session of Congress. His aim, he said, is to make his country totally immune to Communism by raising the national standard of living...
...billiards was keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting...
Congressional Democrats last week figured they had found a way to kill the Dixon-Yates contract. By a strict party-line vote of 10 to 8, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy passed a resolution calling on AEC to cancel its $107 million contract to provide 600,000 kw. of power from a new steam plant to be built at West Memphis, Ark. Then the committee proceeded to make it as tough as possible for AEC to ignore its wishes. It rescinded a waiver voted last year on the committee's right to study the contract...