Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conduct "must be condemned," said Stennis. He called McCarthy's handmaiden speech "a continuation of the slush and slime." It was, he said, "another spot on the escutcheon of the Senate, another splash and splatter." Many more words would be uttered before the debate ended, but quiet John Stennis focused the issue clearly when he said that unless the Senate cen sures McCarthy "something big and fine will have gone from this chamber . . . something wrong will have entered and been accepted...
...Senate Democratic Policy Committee this week made the following policy decisions by way of proving it: 1) Not to permit the special Senate session to confirm the President's pending appointments, two to the Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats were invested with responsibility for the 84th Congress, they would put their partisan considerations foremost. It is only because the Senate returned before...
Last week the showdown came, but not the way Nye had foreseen. What had looked like promising issues ("No Guns for the Huns") in the spring, turned out to be lost causes in November. In a quiet, closed-door session, the Labor M.P.s agreed overwhelmingly to back the Manila Pact, and afterward Nye did not even bother to appear in the House of Commons when it won easy approval. A few days later the second blow fell: in another private session the Labor M.P.s voted 124 to 72 to support German rearmament. When the Bevanites began their insurrection, they...
...singing priest says modestly: "I'm no fit to lace John's boots." When he held a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music, young MacEwan auditioned for the great McCormack. Father MacEwan doesn't remember what he sang, but he says with quiet pride: "He thought I was 'guid.' I want to steer clear of any comparison with him. But he thought I was 'guid.' " So did London society, but in the midst of acclaim, Singer MacEwan felt call to the priesthood: "The spirit quickeneth where it will...
...everso quiet, very, very quiet," Sergeant Fitzgerald of the University Police commented about the weekend...