Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track, Charlie is a shy little fellow with a guileless grin; on a horse, he is a hot-tempered terror. This year he got a nine-day suspension for slashing a jockey, got another ten days for causing a spill, was fined $200 for cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners, but Charlie Burr, at 17, can afford to be philosophic...
When the 1952 appropriations bill came up, Van Zandt tacked on a rider: No money was to be used for retirement pay for officers who left before they reached the compulsory retirement age (60 for officers up to brigadier general, 62 for major generals, 64 for above major general). An officer could retire on three-quarters pay before his time only if he had a physical disability or if the Secretary of Defense considered it for the good of the service or a case of personal hardship...
...Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in 1915, "that Winston hasn't a better sense of proportion ... I don't think that he will ever climb to the top in English politics." If the prophecy was a poor one, the charge was just. Young Churchill, a rough rider in Cuba before Teddy Roosevelt ever got there, author, soldier, hero and cabinet minister all before he reached the age of 40, never did get the knack of seeing things from the narrow perspective of lesser men. Where they saw despair, he saw hope; where they saw defeat, he saw challenge...
Most Republicans, though they thought little of Acheson, thought even less of the idea; only a few more than half attended a caucus to discuss it, and of those who did show up, 33 voted against it. But the rider was dragged on to the floor and furiously debated. Democrats belabored it. No one could say much for it, and one Republican -California's Donald Jackson-had some pointed remarks to make against it. He would gladly vote for impeaching Acheson, he indicated. But the rider was "a trial by attainder . . . which says, in effect, that no man with...
...rider went down by 171 to 81, with two Dixiecrats *joining the Republicans in voting for it. The man with the mustache still...