Word: licked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...what really made exotic fuel a marginal program was the rapid developments in aviation and rocketry since the program began, plus some hard-to-lick bugs in using the fuel. Jet engines have improved so rapidly, even using cheap kerosene as fuel, that they are rapidly, approaching the efficiency expected with exotic fuels. Furthermore, U.S. missiles that can be fired at a distant target from speeding planes have been developed so fast that an increase in the range of the B70 is not as important as it once...
...five Argo albums have sold well, and one of his most recent, Jamal at the Pershing, was for months the top jazz LP in the country. For club engagements Ahmad now gets a top fee of $3,000 per week. Appearing last week at Indiana's French Lick Jazz Festival, he was at the top of his inventive form. A master of the dramatic effects of silence, he sometimes sits for as much as 16 bars without touching a key ("A pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus...
...reprisal. But as the Common Market showed every sign of flourishing, with once-reluctant French and West German industrialists delighted by the prospect of a tariff-free market of 168 million people, the stakes became too high for sniping. And the British decided that if they couldn't lick 'em, and wouldn't join 'em, they would try another tack. With the inspired doggedness that characterizes British diplomacy at its best, the British set to work to stave off the prospect of a European economy permanently divided...
Much of the same crew will turn up on the grounds of the six-story, yellow brick Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind. to blow to an audience sprawled on the lawns and perched in the surrounding oak trees, and in Toronto for a four-day blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival...