Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been trapped. Sensing a strong public reaction against the Administration's deficit-spending policies, they have made economy the foremost issue of the 1963 legislative session. They could, therefore, hardly support the public works appropriation in all its freespending glory. Explained Wisconsin's Republican Representative Melvin Laird after the floor vote: "Sure it was a tough one, perhaps the toughest we could have picked. But if we'd run from this one, I don't see how we could continue to claim that we really believe in economy...
...When he testified last week before a House subcommittee, two Republican Congressmen made side bets on whether McNamara could be asked something he couldn't answer. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin owes William Minshall of Ohio a lunch because McNamara precisely pinpointed a section of the Nassau Pact that Laird thought he might not know...
Healthy & Busy. There is plenty to play with. Like a laird of the manor, Webb has supplied his tenants with almost anything and everything they want to keep them on the go. If a sufficient number want to play boccie, Webb supplies an alley. There are potter's wheels for the potters, easels for the painters. In a proliferation of more than 90 clubs and organizations, Sun City oldsters bicycle and grow vegetables, take pictures, dance, do exercises, sing, sew. act, bowl, swim, and play almost every kind of game from canasta to chess...
...public reaction to this having been satisfactory, relates Laird Bell '04, the President of the Alumni Association and the man responsible for inviting Marshall to speak at Harvard, "the Secretary of State determined to go all out for what has become known as the Marshall Plan, and a speech was prepared accordingly. The question was then the rostrum from which it should be delivered. Two or three suggestions were made, and then the Secretary remembered that he had been invite to receive a Harvard degree and that seemed a highly suitable occasion. He therefore indicated that he would like...
...Laird's statement had the conventional weaknesses of party platforms in America...