Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus in another ten or twenty years...
...Opening Salvos. Yet Sam Ervin's trial-by-jury issue has already come to dominate the civil rights fight, principally because the slogan can easily outrun the difficult and technical counter-explanation. It has so strengthened the Southern position that civil rights backers may find it impossible to obtain the 64 votes necessary to cut off a Senate filibuster. The Southerners are within shooting distance of a Senate majority for an amendment that would require jury trials in civil rights contempt cases; Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney has announced his support of such an amendment...
...Humphrey had finished, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. took the stand, and without even noting that Prosperity was beautiful, grimly defended the Administration's "tight money" policy as an indispensable weapon against inflation. With the economy booming, he explained again, demand for credit tends to outrun supply, so interest rates push upward. For the Government to try to hold the rates down would be to follow "the road to inflation." The oft-raised claim that tight money presses unfairly on small business and local government is "debatable," Martin argued. Furthermore, frustrated borrowers "would suffer infinitely more...
Washington. Capable Governor Arthur Langlie (see cover), has to outrun a proven vote-getter in Senator Warren Magnuson. An uphill race, with Maggie a step ahead...
...last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses" to outrun his competitors. The trick was to stay in front of trouble...