Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway in the roll call on the $5.7 billion tax bill, the House chamber began to buzz with excitement. It was clear that the bill (TIME, Oct. 22) was going down to defeat. The big surprise was that 64 Democrats, some of them swayed by a last-minute letter from the C.I.O. urging rejection, jumped, the traces to join the Republicans in voting...
Before the roll call was finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn was busy scribbling messages summoning his lieutenants to a conference. There he hammered one point: this isn't a question of a good tax bill or a bad tax bill; it's a matter of this tax bill or none at all before adjournment. For the next two days, while party fixers hustled around to put the pressure on the deviating Democrats, a House committee went through the formality of a new conference with the Senate on modifying the bill's provisions. The face-saving changes were...
Dangerous Lottery. Why had Nahas Pasha acted so brazenly, if he could not match deeds with words? One possibility was that, watching Mossadeq's success, he too expected the British lion to roll over and play dead. A likelier explanation was that he badly needed a diversion at home, where there was much talk of corrupt government. King Farouk had returned from his honeymoon distressed by the reports. Recently when 400 acres of land near Alexandria were sold to the poor at bargain prices, the lists proved that among the "poor" new owners were relatives of Nahas Pasha...
...describe him, they usually fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed...
...upset both Army and Syracuse. But it has also dropped two games decisively to the not surpassingly strong teams of Fordham and Pennsylvania. And the remaining schools on McLaughry's schedules are Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton-none of whom are expected, even by the most ardent Hanoverian, to roll over and play dead...