Word: lopsidedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torrent of Abuse. With such a lopsided committee endorsement. Senate confirmation seemed likely to be routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it...
The comedy done, the Senate finally-after a debate that took up some 65,000 words in the Congressional Record-got around to confirming Clare Luce as Ambassador to Brazil. The vote: a lopsided 79 (33 Republicans, 46 Democrats) to 11 (all Democrats*).
The responsibility rests with the Administration as a whole. If the government will recognize that taking a part--even unofficial--in Communist-infiltrated activities can help to balance lopsided propaganda, our real successes in Moscow may be repeated. But if we make things difficult for the interested to do anything...
The U.S. moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the...
Howe won the fourth game, 16 to 14, despite a strong comeback by Emmet. After gaining the initiative during the best-of-five deuce, he capitalized on another Emmet letdown to gain a lopsided lead in the finale.