Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling handed down four years ago when Lyndon Johnson assumed floor leadership. Johnson's dictum: every Democrat should sit on at least one committee of his choice; even first-termers, wherever possible, should have an interesting committee assignment. Estes Kefauver already ranked high on not one but two prime committees, i.e., second Democrat on Judiciary, fourth on Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under Lyndon Johnson's mandate for a better job. ··· While Democrats last week were at least showing...
...undoubtedly the best chairman the Republicans have had in a generation: shrewd and eupeptic, confident about his political knowledge. He planned the famous "Salute to Ike" dinners, bringing a fat $4,000,000 into the party's 1956 war chest, then spent half that buying up expensive "prime time" on TV. He never swerved from his conviction that Ike would run again despite heart attack and ileitis operation, thus preventing a unity fracturing scramble for delegate votes. His candidate won by a landslide, but his party failed to capture Congress...
...side on the cushion as the car roared at 60 miles an hour toward Chequers, carrying into retirement and the long shadows of history an exhausted man on whose shoulders rested a burden of disaster few men have had to bear. Thus ended the 642 days of the prime ministry of Sir Anthony Eden-one of the shortest and most melancholy in Britain's proud history...
...they aware of what they really mean. Investors, for example, often talk of a "$6 rise" on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a "constant divisor" which they adjust to account for stock splits. Currently, the divisor stands at 4.566, meaning that each point in the average is equal to $1 divided by 4.566, or about...
...British custom of not criticizing political opponents sharply while in a foreign country, but still his position as the leader of the Opposition to a newly-formed Conservative Government was significant throughout the evening. Gaitskell Wednesday demanded a general election in Great Britain upon the resignation of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, before Harold Macmillan had been named to succeed...