Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must either run or positively forbid the use of his name, Rockefeller replied with a broad grin: "I'll have to make a mental note...
...lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange of letters, begun by Neuberger in an attempt at reconciliation and answered by Morse in these words: "You have a lot of guts to write me ... The cowardly attempt in your letter to pass the buck to me for your failure . . . to consult with me about your bill is but further evidence of your complete untrustworthiness as a colleague." For months Dick Neuberger doggedly kept up the correspondence, but Morse finally...
...refused to join a strike because it would mean a violation of Nichiren's teaching that work is a blessing. The issue was compromised: union leaders promised not to interfere with the conversion of workers and Soka Gakkai agreed to recognize strikes aimed at "bettering the workers' lot...
...over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet, you'll know how I hated to go"). Chips, plugs and crusades burdened his shoulders; he told Presidents how to run the U.S. and statesmen how to run the world...
...spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called `god'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes...