Word: reines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson heads into the opening of the 86th Congress, he has been tabbed by the pundits as a "moderate," whose principal job it will be to rein in the Senate's wild-eyed Democratic "liberals." Such political labels don't fit, says Johnson in the current University of Texas Texas Quarterly: "God made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal...
...Senate. "You know," he confided, "I feel sort of like a father to these boys. A father loves his sons, though one son may drink a little too much, another may neck with the girls a little too much. A good father uses a gentle but firm rein, checks his sons, guides them and. above all. understands them." Lyndon Johnson's best chance is that the Democratic Party in 1960, having considered all the boys and found them wanting, might turn to the Democratic daddy himself...
Home from exile, Machado carefully nurtured the notion that the Communists were a respectable domestic political party rather than part of a subversive international movement. The three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
...these dangers, and in this he agrees with Secretary Dulles and with the NATO allies, who have drifted over to a cautious and skeptical position. The chief result of the recent Copenhagen meeting was this change in the NATO attitude, and the emergence of a wariness which gives wider rein to the U.S. in its bickering with Russia...
...effectively relegates the plans to the honest, but not necessarily efficient or interested departments. If a department is uninterested in the House-orientation proposed for non-honors tutorial, or if it is wildly enthusiastic about the restrictions to be imposed on the content of pass candidacy, it gets free rein to enact the latter impulse and receives no push in the direction of the former...