Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next thing you know, State Senator Eddins won't allow both salt and pepper on his table at the same time...
...special significance. These are, however, not ordinary times. Meddling by outside do-gooders has stirred racial tensions here in the South to an alltime high and damaged relations between the races to an extent that will never be undone. Despite Author Williams' naive and sarcastic assertion, I know, and you should know, that this book is readily adaptable to planting in the mind of a child receptiveness to the idea of marriage between white and black human beings. No responsible person will deny that just such use is being made of this type material today...
...performance would have set the Republican pros to sniggering contemptuously at another man. Pointing to New York's Representative John Taber, senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee and as given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...
...Adenauer got tougher at a meeting of the party executive. He sent Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier raging from the room with a sneering, "I know you don't like me. You never liked me." Then he demanded a loyalty pledge from the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus. Shaken by his thunder and his vast reputation, and frightened of a disastrous party split, the dissenters meekly voted ja, approving a statement that "by unanimous decision the party agreed to form a united front in defense of the Chancellor...
...that 1) there is no special U.S.-British partnership, and 2) France cannot get into it. It hopes not to antagonize De Gaulle but to counter his demands with sweetly reasonable explanations of the impossibility of complying with them. Those who dealt with the general in World War II know that such tactics have never before persuaded De Gaulle to abandon what he considers legitimate national goals...