Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time he was a very small child he wanted to be a lawyer...
...attending courses at the University of Texas law school right through the summers, he plowed through the three-year law curriculum in two years, graduated with the highest average in his class. Toward the end of his second year, mindful that jobs were scarce for young lawyers in 1932, he ran for the state legislature from his home district. Elected on graduation day, he took his place among his fellow Democrats in the Texas house of representatives as a gangly country boy of 22. "When he got up and spoke," a former colleague recalls, "things that were vague and misty...
...friendship with Speaker Rayburn's top fiscal adviser, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, able chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee. These leadership contacts, plus his unflagging attention to every staffer and stenographer, give Anderson more support in Congress than a member of a Republican Cabinet has any right to expect from a Democratic majority...
France Alone. With the big partners at odds, the smaller among the 15 partners in NATO-bureaucratically known as "the less directly responsible powers"-were demanding the right to be heard. NATO's Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, who wants a thorough re-examination of policy, is convinced that "we are at the beginning of a new phase. I believe that the Russians need a long period of peace...
...preliminary statement," made without notes, that turned out to be almost word for word like a mimeographed summary handed to the newsmen as they came in. In the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the general had seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...