Word: postscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obligation to make sure that the remainder of the 20th century eradicates the conditions spawning such separatist movements in order to avoid the tragic consequences of similar "cargo cults." The "Messiah" who appeared to the Western Indians about 1890 also promised them an Armageddon with a postscript of a land of "milk and honey" reserved exclusively for red men, of course. The result was gunpowder, chaos and tragedy for those who tried to hurry Armageddon, and those who maintained quiet hopes must still be waiting. Spencer C. D. Jourdain...
...Postscript Fiasco. Rayburn's serious troubles with the Rules Committee flared up in the 86th Congress-despite the fact that in the 1958 congressional elections the Democrats had widened their margin in the House to nearly 2 to 1, most lopsided majority since the 19303. What made the Rules Committee more troublesome than before was that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats...
...Rules Committee, and so did a bill to ease restrictions on picketing of construction sites. Kennedy Democrats hoped to pass a politically profitable batch of welfare legislation at the post-convention session of Congress, but Judge Smith's Rules Committee helped Charlie Halleck's Republicans turn the postscript into a fiasco that spoiled the Democratic hopes and dented John F. Kennedy's image of leadership at the start of his tough campaign for the presidency...
...Break the Grip. The postscript session riled the frustrated young Kennedy "pragmatic liberals," and they prodded Sam Rayburn to do something about Judge Smith. By the time Congress convened again after the election, Speaker Rayburn had made up his mind that he had to break Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...
...shocked Franklin hagiographers. Old Mistresses Apologue, which he wrote for an anonymous young friend, listed eight sound reasons for preferring a seasoned older woman to a raw young one. It was the eighth reason that was too much for later generations-"they are so grateful!!" Even the equally sensible postscript ("But still I advise you to marry directly") failed to save Ben from the Victorian suspicion that he was not a totally respectable...