Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whirl & Wheedle. Before that, some Northern Democrats, suspecting Johnson of losing interest in liberal legislation, had begun to fume. He seemed overattentive, they thought, to procedural efficiency, party unity, the friendship of fellow Southerners and the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson. When the Democrat-controlled Senate Banking and Currency Committee threw out the Eisenhower Administration's plan to build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate...
...blue field, representing a new constellation.'' Eighteen years of digging and deduction have produced a new theory that the Stars and Stripes descended not from the national colors of some other country but from a red-and-white-striped symbol of unity flown by Calvinists in seven northern provinces of The Netherlands during the revolt against Spain that began in 1568. This theory, based on 16th to 18th century paintings as well as written records, is the work of Lawrence Phelps Tower, a Wall Street broker who once made a business of tracking down obscure paintings...
...share of the total vote from 31.2% in 1951 to 38.6%. They increased their seats in Sicily's parliament from 30 to 37, giving their regional government, which in Sicily acts in coalition with the Monarchists, an absolute majority. For the Communists, who had been answering losses in northern Italy with the claim that they were gaining in the south, the setback was sharp. They not only failed to gain, but even dropped some 17,000 votes since the 1953 general election. The Communist-Socialist bloc, however, held its 30 seats because. Nenni's -fellow-traveling Socialists picked...
...gold had long belonged to Iran-it was the agreed Russian payment for Iranian services during World War II, when the Red army occupied the northern half of the country and the British the 29 southern. The British paid for what they used or took; the Russians had not. Russia's belated paying-up is presumably intended to lure Iran away from the northern-tier alliance of Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan. But most Iranians seemed to regard the transaction as merely getting back what belonged to them all along...
...hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests and 'gator-filled streams of northern Florida's wild St. Johns River country that the novelist described almost two decades ago in The Yearling. A charmingly illustrated idyl, with just the right mixture of fish story and black-water magic, The Secret River is well worth exploring if it leads youngsters-and those who read...