Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not yield to that which I know is wrong," cried he. "Abandonment of the principles involved anywhere is to forsake them everywhere." His lowest blow: "The livid stench of sadism, sex, immorality and juvenile pregnancy infesting the mixed schools of the District of Columbia and elsewhere." Washington schoolmen, whose delinquency problems are no worse than most big-city school systems', angrily lashed back at the myth created by four years of Dixie Congressmen's efforts to prove that integration does not work in the nation's capital...
...does with all young Democratic Congressmen, Rayburn took Mills in hand early, gave fatherly advice and counsel. "Don't try to go too fast," he says. "Learn your job." Or: "Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about." Or still again: "If you want to get along, go along." By that he does not mean blindly sticking to the party line. He does mean living by the manners and morals...
...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
...Rayburn dislikes the name, which was given to the sessions by Texas' John Nance Garner, who, as a House member, used to signal Speaker Nicholas Longworth each afternoon that it was time to "strike a blow for liberty." Explained Garner: "You know, you get a couple of drinks in a young Congressman, and then you know what he can do. We pay the tuition by supplying the liquor...
...Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must not serve as a payoff between two opposing political clans. It is imperative to know the truth quickly. Stifled scandals have always deeply hurt the Republic...