Word: lariat
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After a month of whirling the May-Johnson atomic-power bill like a lariat, the Congress shakily decided not to use a cattle rope on a rogue elephant. As the House Military Affairs Committee reported the bill out last week, it was a foregone conclusion that it would not pass in its present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger...
...stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came off a farm in Ohio...
British officials, unaware that Sandefer once taught the subtleties of the lariat to the Kaiser, wondered what kind of Western rope trick this was. Just what was he cooking up with Gandhi, and did he have any "political aspirations?" To the first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...
...Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied a decent health program or are doing without a full year's work in arithmetic, reading and history...