Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirds majority (as few as 33 members) of a quorum. Under the Wherry rule, cloture could be applied at any stage of a debate, but only by a two-thirds majority (64) of the whole Senate. Cloture could not be invoked at all on a change in rules, which left the way open for an unstoppable filibuster if anyone tried again to change them. The new rule would be a weak weapon against any but a very small minority...
...Must Know. The story was not quite the way Gerald said it was, but it was bad enough. Mrs. Sullivan had two sons (both now in the Marines) and a daughter. Her husband had deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of the intervals when he was off, she had given birth to Gerald by a man now dead. She decided that no one must ever know. She went regularly to confession, but never told her biggest...
...great day for the impeccable Jacques Dumaine, chief of protocol at the Quai d'Orsay, who is known around press rooms and chancelleries as Jeeves. In magnificent cutaway, his monocle fixed now in his right, now in his left eye, he was the embodiment of conventional diplomacy. With discreet gestures of guidance, he led delegate after delegate to a huge table in the French Foreign Ministry's Galerie de la Paix where the Allies signed their lenient peace treaties with Hitler's former allies, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. After the signing, the treaties were sent to Moscow...
...Bulgarian electrician with four children, summarized the hopes and complaints of Akir. "We are far from 100% organized, but we see a good beginning," he said as a crowd of roughly dressed settlers in work caps nodded approval. "Of course there is still the Arab cemetery. We have left that untouched. We have a school and a small synagogue...
...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...