Word: rams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inability to ram his legislative program through a stubborn Congress, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond summed up: "There is no doubt in my mind that Senator Kennedy was absolutely sincere in telling the American people in the 1960 campaign that if they would elect a Democratic President and give leadership to a Democratic Congress, all would go well. And he was absolutely wrong...
Princess & Politics. Dirksen and Ropp produced two other notable theatricals. One was a one-act allegory called The Slave with Two Faces, in which Ev cavorted on stage wearing a ram's-head mask, black socks, short black tights and nothing else. "I remember thinking," recalls one witness, "that the party lines would be buzzing tomorrow." The other was Percy MacKaye's A Thousand, Years Ago, in which Ev played a pulsating lover panting after the charms of the Princess of Pekin. He won her, of course-and he kept he, for the "princess" was played...
...reform" that the President promised for next year in both corporate and personal income taxes. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "For many years, our tax structure has been based on social objectives rather than on economic objectives, to the detriment of business activity and employment." Most businessmen recognized that to ram through reform, Kennedy would have to have benefits to confer to make up for the reductions in tax write-offs and tightening of tax loopholes. Drawled R. P. Baxter, president of the Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co.: "I think President Kennedy wants to hold...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...
...Flirtation. Ivory Coast's leader got his start as a country doctor in the backwoods. His contact with village chiefs and the unhappy masses gave Houphouet (he later added Boigny, which means "battering ram" in his native Baoule tongue) an itch for politics; in the 19405 he formed Ivory Coast's first political party, later organized nationalist politicians in all French West Africa territories into one large political group, the Rassemblement Democratique Africain. For a time. Houphouet-Boigny's RDA was allied with the French Communists, but eventually he dropped his Red friends; bv then...