Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia, and 2) Post Office and Civil Service. Each is so lowly that no Senator bothered to bid for it. Result: the posts will be left open...
...tiny slabs of ivory, some no more than half an inch in diameter, are preserved the faces of major Colonial, Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary figures as painted by America's most skillful miniaturists (opposite). Some of them pack immense values into a minuscule space-accuracy of the likeness, deftness of characterization, clarity of form, purity of texture, a glow of the ivory through the delicate colors to enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they...
...menace down to life size, the script permits its corn-fed psychopath to sphacelate through the U.S. social body like some malignant growth, until he actually threatens to take over the Federal Government. As the driving force of a fascist-tinged political movement. Lonesome Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time the moviegoer is not believing a word of it, and he may well be wondering if Director Kazan, like the villain of his piece, has not somehow mistaken his public for a bunch of "stupid slobs...
...miners caroused in the taverns, and when Palmer died without a struggle, they cried, "Cheat! Twister!", for they had come to see him kick at the end of the rope. Britain's Robert Graves, poet, novelist, fabulist and all-round man of letters, has now issued a lively post-post-mortem report on the whole affair...
...hopes to restore some of its former honor to cheerleading by having the masters appoint outstanding juniors (not necessarily athletes) to the post in the spring of their junior year...