Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of-the fight, Sam Rayburn's top lieutenant, Missouri's Richard Bolling, based his strategy on a civil-rights sleeper that had somehow slipped unnoticed into the Landrum-Griffin bill. The Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony...
...tried to override a presidential veto-and for the fifth time it failed. Last week's Senate vote of 55-40, nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party to a needless and humiliating...
...House Ways & Means Committee, after weeks of indecision, approved by 16 to 9 a 1?-per-gallon increase in the 3? federal gasoline tax, effective Sept. 1, to keep the 41,000-mile interstate-highway program rolling (see BUSINESS...
...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows-obedience is her undoing...