Word: lump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outrage. As its last act, the House shouted its approval of a catchall $1 billion appropriations bill and then, under a permissive resolution already sent over by the Senate,* headed for home. That left the money bill before the Senate on a like-it-or-lump-it basis-and the Senate did not like it at all. For one thing, the House-approved bill knocked out the backdoor financing provisions in four major Administration measures. For another, the House had deleted a proposal to increase each Senator's office payroll by $5,000. But about all the Senate could...
Bert's Pants. Caldwell's special quality is a wonderful ease; he evokes humor or horror without bravura or its opposite, the smug underplaying that leaves the reader, at the end of so many short stories, disappointedly clutching a glazed lump of irony in the form of a souvenir ashtray. Caldwell gives away no pottery. In a leisurely way, yet wasting no time with scene-setting, he lays out his dialogue and his few spare sentences of narration. The characters take shape quickly as the story forms. At the end, amazingly often, what the reader takes away...
...complete individual freedom for every U.S. citizen through conservative political philosophy, I am grateful for TIME'S portrayal of the John Birch Society as "wayway right" of the main stream of the current conservative movement in this country. There is a deplorable tendency in some journalistic quarters to lump the "sane" conservatives, represented by Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr., with an "insane" element, represented by Robert Welch and his "Birch-Barkers...
...yellow fever epidemic, bets were made on the number of the dead. Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone, a madman at gambling, drew the line only at the stock market. Said...
...into the Human Resources Foundation. The foundation has found, for example, that cardiac patients can do much more work than anticipated and actually improve in health in the process. In addition to publishing such findings, Viscardi writes books about the experiences of people at Abilities guaranteed to bring a lump to the throat (next one to be published in June: A Laughter in the Lonely Night). He has helped Minneapolis-Honeywell, Hughes Aircraft, Republic Steel, Sperry and Grumman Aircraft to use the skills of the handicapped; Sears, Roebuck rewrote its employment manual to include them...