Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week neither Democrats nor Republicans were yet willing to yield another inch. House Republicans brought out a bill including part of what Harry Truman wanted (export and transportation controls) but stressing the Republican program for voluntary action. When the G.O.P. tried to ram it through with a two-thirds voting procedure barring all amendments, a solid Democratic opposition killed the bill-and the probability of any anti-inflation action before Christmas...
...more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles-no automobiles...
...extra-heavy cream of Manhattan café society eddied thickly between the walls, slowed to an occasional standstill by the 15 new Salvador Dali oils hanging there. The Flying Giant Demi-Tasse gave them pause; so did the Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the 21st Century - a creature with ram's horns and two tongues, one a foot long...
Shortly after midnight, Carlos Prio Socarrás left the Senate chamber and went directly to the third-floor palace apartment of President Ramón Grau San Martin. Later, he came out, smiling. Said he: "Grau is content with my conduct before the Senate." In the Senate, Labor Minister Prio Socarrás had been called on the carpet last week to explain why he threw the Communists out of Havana's Labor Palace last August (TIME, Aug. 11). He told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong...
Chicago Bears 41, Los Angeles Ram...