Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department. When the resolution of inquiry came back to the floor, the House shouted down an attempt to drop it, instead set up a cry of protest about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. G.O.P. Whip Charlie Halleck, scenting an upset, scurried around to line up votes. On a roll call, the House shattered custom by voting 189 (160 Republicans, 29 Democrats) to 143 to keep the resolution alive and formally to "direct" Dean Acheson to report...
Googie architecture, says HOUSE & HOME, is "Modern Architecture Uninhibited ... an art in which anything and everything goes-so long as it's modern ... To the inventions of the modern engineer Googie adds all of Popular Mechanics, [including] walls that are hinged and roll out on casters, doors that disappear into the ground, overhead lights that cook the hamburger...
Most papers were well prepared to give the story the big play it deserved. Ever since the King's operation last fall, editors have had pages, complete with pictures and background stories, ready to roll. The New York Times, which had four full pages locked up, ready to go to press in 15 minutes, devoted 47 columns to the story, and stopped the presses printing its Sunday Magazine to replate with a cover picture of the new Queen. Editors took extra care to keep from stumbling in matters of royal protocol. The Dallas Times-Herald asked the British consul...
...frequently waved through without bothering to call for a quorum or recording the vote, but never had such an important treaty slipped by with so little notice. Hastily, the Senate asked the President to return the treaty "for reconsideration." This time, the quorum bells would be sounded, the roll formally called, and the approval of Greece and Turkey in NATO recorded with proper ceremony...
...selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...