Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Johnson knew very well that many of his turn-away audiences would come out to see a stuffed whale or Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some wearing "Like That Lyndon" buttons. As the formation of a local "Johnson for President" club was announced to an obbligato of rebel yells, Lyndon, who refuses to announce that he is a candidate, stood at the sidelines, beaming...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
President Pusey has made available to the "Y" parts of the gymnasium building on Everett Street which Harvard took over from Sargent College three years ago. The facilities include a fourth floor gymnasium, a game room on the same floor, and a locker room, showers, and a craft room in the basement...
...Administration closed Memorial Hall as a dining room, and for the next six years everyone in the University had to "eat out" in the Square, if he were...
...even in a comedy there is room for gravity and beauty. Juniper holds a telling debate with Pepe about the nature of religion that would do some theologians proud. And when Juniper says, in reply to the General's scornful question, "What miracles have you seen?" that he has "seen the bright day follow the darkest night... I have seen individual acts of courage that redeemed the cowardice of nations." the entire audience is hushed...