Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...surprising fact was that 25,932 people did pay to get in to watch the scramble for Joe Louis' abandoned heavyweight crown. They were sorry. For six rounds hardly a blow was struck-except a couple of low ones for which the referee cautioned Charles. In the seventh, after Charles had fallen down, purely by accident, he scrambled to his feet in a mild huff and let go a pair of rights & lefts that staggered Walcott and had him on the verge of going down. With the crowd calling for the kill, Charles suddenly slowed up his attack...
...Gershwin. Since the day in World War I when Minnie talked wealthy (copper mining) Adolph Lewisohn (Sam's father) into giving concerts free for the troops in his newly built City College stadium, she has also given her audiences great music year after year for ticket prices as low as 25?. She has given some new composers (George Gershwin) and little-known soloists (Marian Anderson) their first big concert breaks. The stadium's annual Gershwin nights are still its most frequent sellouts...
...first screen appearance, plays the difficult role of Carter's son with ease and assurance. Outstanding bit-player is the Rev. Robert Dunn, real-life rector of Portsmouth's St. John's Episcopal Church. His screenplay sermon on tolerance is a little masterpiece of low-keyed natural eloquence...
Despite the low-keyed lighting and some ominous shots of stormy Florida coast, nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...