Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judgment Day: up before the Senate was Joe's request for $214,000 to carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"-a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse...
...Roll-call votes in the Senate would be required on all treaties...
Many new kitchens virtually eliminate stooping and stretching. The refrigerator and oven fit into the wall at waist level. A mixer folds into the counter like a secretary's typewriter. Wall cabinets are low, and floor storage shelves roll out on bearings, or rise to work level as they are pulled...
...house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second...
Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets...