Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear it-he senses it." Because Lyndon Johnson understands its members, he can sense the mood of the Senate as have few men before him. One time Republican Leader Bill Knowland announced to newsmen that a bill, which he supported and Johnson opposed, was going to win by nine votes. Later, Johnson leaned across the aisle to whisper to Knowland: "Bill, we don't need to have a roll call on this. I've got you beat by three votes." He did, too. Says Lyndon Johnson: "I usually know what's going to happen within the first...
...Johnson put some 20,000 young men to work at such jobs as building and beautifying the state's roadside parks-and he built up a respectable political following which he used as a springboard in 1937 to run for the House of Representatives. Johnson won over nine opponents, and, even before going to Washington, made another great and good friend: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fishing in Galveston Bay, F.D.R. heard of the young man who had just been elected on the odd-in conservative Texas -platform of support for Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court...
...Force's plans for nine squadrons of Atlas liquid-fueled ICBMs, eleven squadrons of Titan ICBMs; cost: $6 billion...
...Nasser's intelligence officers charged that five conspirators 'had accepted British and Saudi money in a plot to assassinate Nasser last year. The Nasser-Serraj bombshell successfully diverted Syrians' attention from Nasser's announcement of the new republic's Cabinet-which gives the Egyptians nine of ten U.A.R. ministries, and installs the resourceful Serraj as Interior Minister and strongman of Nasser's Syrian province...
...wandered close to Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm last week were brusquely shooed away by grim-faced guards who sprang from behind cactus clumps. A total of 21 armed men-six Secret Service agents, six members of the Arizona highway patrol and nine Maricopa County sheriffs deputies-guarded the place around the clock, seven men to each eight-hour shift...