Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against his Southern friends in an attempt to cut off a Southern filibuster. But he lost not a friend thereby. He set the tone by reaching for one of his ageless stories. "I feel," he said, "somewhat like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he liked it, and he said that if it were not for the honor of the thing, he would just as soon walk...
...whether it should recognize as a basic fact that Brazil is the U.S.'s principal Latin American partner. In Rio, a joint commission was planning a billion-dollar Brazilian development program, half of it to be financed mainly by U.S. loans. Earlier in the week $37.5 million in rail and power loans for Brazil had been announced by the World Bank in Washington...
Feted by the Federal Bar Association for his "constant and unselfish support" of Government employees, former Government Employee J. Howard McGrath, who last April was fired by the President from his job as U.S. Attorney General, recalled the Mark Twain character who got ridden out of town on a rail. The deportee's words, as quoted by Lawyer McGrath: "If it were not for the honor of the occasion, I should rather have walked...
...starter's gun for the 800-meter race, the field took off, jockeying for position. One lanky runner, starting on the outside lane, cannily let the field pass him, then moved over and settled down to the well-worn groove by the rail-the shortest course. Running with gracefully flowing strides, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, 27, moved through the field, passing them one by one. In the homestretch, opening up, the 1948 Olympic champion whizzed to an 8-yd. victory in meet record time of 1:48.6, a full 1.3 seconds faster than the 1936 record...
...suddenly confronted the U.S. and Britain with huge bills ($14 million for the U.S., $4,650,000 for the British) for telephone & telegraph service between West Berlin and West Germany, as they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...