Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey's Charles Joelson was brushed aside when he proposed a "do-it-yourself economy kit" with which each Congressman would trim 5% from federal projects in his own district. Michigan's Martha Griffiths captured the mood perfectly when she volunteered: "If the rest of you want to cut something out of your districts, I'll be glad to help." No one took up the offer. Silvio Conte of Massachusetts pointed to the "Capitol police falling all over themselves, elevator operators running automatic elevators." Even Arizona's John Rhodes, who as chairman of the House Republican...
Radcliffe defeated nine other schools in the regatta. The "A" boat, skippered by Miss Chalmers and Martha Fransson, scored two firsts, two seconds, and one third. "B" skipper Martha Fransson won three races and placed second once...
...said that Miss Taylor intentionally gained weight to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If so, she must have gone into this film too fast to trim it off. Huston wisely spends most of the time presenting Miss Taylor in unbuttoned blouses, but a full-length nude shot of her (or her stand-in) climbing a stair simply fails to justify the spying enlisted man's sudden fixation for her. Her performance is, on the other hand, quite thin, with Miss Taylor's most affecting scenes those with her horse...
...listen the whole way through, you won't notice that Martha and the Vandellas' "Heat Wave" is both #102 and #263. You also wouldn't know that the Beatles make the list 19 times, the Beach Boys 12, Rolling Stones 8, and Monkees...
...race, junior Martha Fransson took three firsts in four races and Jane Chalmers '69 two seconds and a first. Miss Chalmers provided some competitive fireworks as she filed protests against each of the other schools in the regatta while she disqualified herself from one race...