Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Senate voted. On the peril-point amendment, the vote divided almost exactly on party lines; only three Democrats-Colorado's Ed Johnson, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-crossed over to support the solid front of 35 Republicans. It was not enough. The amendment was defeated...
...agreed to meet with the fact finders in the first place; the board itself had reiterated that details should be worked out in company-by-company bargaining. If that didn't suit Murray, then a steel shutdown would be on Murray's head. Up to that point Fairless had made no comment whatever on the virtue of the fact finders' recommendations. Now, while the rest of the steel world listened respectfully, he commented at length...
...whole dustup was hardly calculated to win much sympathy for the rebellious Navy. When the House Armed Services Committee re-opened its investigation of the B-36, Navymen would get their chance to make their case against the Air Force theories of strategic bombing. But there was not much point in blaming the unification law for their troubles. "It's like shouting out against the abolition of slavery," one vice admiral admitted. "Hell, it's the law of the land...
...point, he swore he "could not remember" where his only child was born in 1942, later on produced glib details of his own life in kindergarten, nearly 40 years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling...
...Assembly's provisional 60-point agenda read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...