Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the other side of the Capitol, the Senate moved steadily toward adjournment, whooping through 134 bills (nearly all of them minor) in one two-hour period. The Senate's big items concerned two politically loaded pieces of legislation. On one, the proposal for a federal dam in Hell...
In Parliament Nehru resembles nothing so much as a crotchety schoolmaster leading a class discussion. He constantly pops up to interrupt, discourses firmly on everything from the evils of too many cocktail parties to what kind of clothing M.P.s should wear. Often these casual expressions of personal opinion determine national...
The declaration's keynote: "In a world in which the dignity of the individual, his fundamental rights and the spiritual values of mankind are seriously threatened by totalitarian forces alien to the tradition of our peoples and their institutions, America holds steadfastly to its historic mission-to be a...
Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government at Harvard, and Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., both backed Stassen's proposal. They agreed that an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would carry with it more House and Senate seats than one where Nixon was the running mate, and to this extent...
He got the part not so much for his resemblance to Higgins as for his charm on the boards. A boulder of a word, reduced to pebble-size by too much fingering, "charm" comes from the Latin for incantation and implies the use of magic. No one who has seen...