Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even as the Eisenhower Republicans sought a firmer stance, they could feel the rug being pulled out from under them by their political leader. Dwight Eisenhower, after years of insisting that the internal affairs of the Congress were none of his business, had suddenly decided to take a hand. On the record, Ike was merely pleading with Senate Republicans not to get into a ruinous fight. Actually, he was doing everything possible to defeat the Republican Senators who were battling on his behalf...
Pulling the Rug. The Senate's G.O.P. liberals have raised revolts before-and walked away from them before-but this time George Aiken seemed to mean business. Reason: in 1958 such G.O.P. right-wing Senators as Nevada's George "Molly" Malone, Ohio's John Bricker, California's Bill Knowland (running for Governor) and West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb, were roundly defeated while G.O.P. liberals just about held even and were sparked in spirit by G.O.P. liberal Nelson Rockefeller's election to the New York governorship. The incoming 34-man G.O.P. minority includes twelve...
Bridges went to the White House, told Ike that foreign aid appropriations would be slashed unless aid to satellites was dropped (TIME, June 16); Ike backed away, pulled the rug out from under the loyal liberals...
Outside the secluded stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...
Tweed & Patches. Teacher Mendenhall is proprietor of the most disorderly office at Yale; at his study, drifted ceiling-high with books in imminent danger of avalanche, one student appeared, asked for an examination paper, got it only after Mendenhall fished it from under a corner of the rug. But Mendenhall's molting-bear disguise hides a man who is no organization-flouting rebel. Since he joined the faculty as a young instructor in 1937-he graduated from the college in 1932, spent three years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar-the tweed-and-patches professor has risen rapidly, proved...