Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"This Slanderer." Compared to Morse's 20,000-word tirade, Clare Luce's 22-word wisecrack was a pebble slingshot against a ton of brickbats. But it stung Wayne Morse. As soon as the Senate wound up its close REA vote (see The Congress), Morse stood up. Not...
"The belief is," replied Illinois' Dirksen, "that she may have had some provocation-among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later...
On top of all this, the Senate was asking itself for $4,000,000 to complete the subway (total cost: $6,349,000) to the new Senate Office Building. The subway would save a mere 50-step walk for the Senators, said Douglas, who had paced it off-and the...
Lem Lemnitzer moved like a nonconductor. In December he smoothly headed off a drive by the new civilian space agency (NASA) to take over Huntsville, but he promised to serve any NASA needs. His own strongest efforts had long since been thrown behind development of more earthy necessities, e.g., a...
The disciplined life had its lighter moments. Lyman, the daring one, taught younger brother Ernest (now with a building-construction firm in Hackensack, N.J.) how to swim, shook the town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone...