Word: reeds
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...Theodore Roosevelt because he was to be seated below the Attorney General. Albert has none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President James Madison), or the arrogance of Thomas Reed (whose highhanded use of House rules made him a virtual czar in the 1890s). Albert would most like to emulate his longtime Southwestern neighbor, the late Sam Rayburn. The canny Texan was the kind of Speaker who always insisted that "I haven't served under anybody, but I have served...
...Oliver Reed, looking like a well-dressed rain barrel, does not do much, but he is appallingly convincing at scenes involving mayhem and sadism. The script, by Richard Harris and Eleanor Perry, is proficient, and the direction by Anatole Litvak, a kind of Preminger without pizzaz, gets the job done. So does The Lady, if you have an empty evening that requires nothing more than passive entertainment...
...28th vote, he said, was a proxy from Russell, lying critically ill at Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
Other human pollutants showed up in the remotest areas. After sailing across the Atlantic in a reed boat last summer, Explorer Thor Heyerdahl reported that stinking nodules of oil covered a 1,400-mile stretch of midocean. Apparently the oil was dumped by ships cleaning their tanks. Since 1950, warned Jacques-Yves Cousteau, pollution and overfishing have killed 40% of marine life in the oceans. Meeting in Malta and Rome, scientists charted ways to save the seas ?provided international cooperation can be achieved...
...Fort Benning, Ga., it was 0600?reveille hour?but no bugle sounded. So SP/4C Terry Reed dozed blissfully until 7 a.m. Reveille has gone out of style at Fort Benning; all a soldier need do is get to his first duty post on time...