Word: outbidding
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...State Department, the White House, and the National Security Council. The big Texan with the big ideas, however, forcefully pulled the Stassen-Dulles feud into the Congressional repertoire. Calling for peace waged at the conference table, Johnson, who invited "all men of all nations" to its chairs, outbid the President. Eisen-hower simply held the door open to talks, but required credentials of good faith for those who want to pass the threshold. It will indeed be a novel spectacle, though not one unwelcome to Senator Bricker, if the Senate tries to assume a forceful role in foreign policy decisions...
...chance to see Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain in action. The Negro star, all 7 ft. 2 in. of him, is their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might have learned since Jayhawk recruiters outbid more than 100 schools and sent him to Lawrence, Kans. for some higher education on the court...
...effect of the new look was to huddle Congress' Eisenhower Republicans into an uncomfortable minority. Democrats found themselves aligned with conservative "1890" Republicans and wondered apprehensively whether they should try to outbid Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, who is demanding a $3 billion budget cut and has turned on the school bill (see EDUCATION) that he twice before supported...
Late Joiner. At first, Britain was not I in on this act. Britain was still busy try-I ing to outbid Nasser for leadership of the I Arab world. Early in October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only...
...approach, Stevenson did not hesitate to denounce his opponent. He complained that Kefauver had "outbid" him on farm support prices and aid to schools. "I will not promise anything I don't believe in or that I don't think is reasonable or possible," he said. At a meeting with California Negro leaders...