Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Hoover, 84, concurs with the generally accepted designations of the rider on the white horse as War ("a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer"). He also agrees with the majority that the rider on the black horse was Famine ("and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice . . . say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt...
...experience and skill, but far from blindly. Once, when Milton was uninhibitedly polishing a presidential speech, Ike took one look and said, gently but firmly: "That's fine. But it's not what I want to say." Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955. As a matter of constitutional principle, he advised Ike to veto the bill and "tell Congress to go to hell." But Ike, unlike Milton, has the responsibility of elective office, and he realized that the virtues of the whole bill...
...pressure gauge to normal, but the Senate was already under full steam. Georgia's Richard Russell, whose prestige as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee had suffered during the battle for a Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than to be making plans for living on their knees as the slaves...
...Congressman. His absenteeism is monumental (last year's roll call attendance: 46%); he is noisy, obstructionist and, above all, ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...
...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...