Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before this session Udall got in touch with other committee Democrats who felt as he did. Together the rebels drew up 16 rules specifying set times for meetings and establishment of regular subcommittees. They got Sam Rayburn's pledge of neutrality, buttonholed other members of both parties to point out defects in Barden's chairmanship: e.g., seven of nine Administration-supported labor requests were pigeonholed last year without even committee hearings. When this session's first Education and Labor meeting was called last week, the rebels had a majority (17 of 30) committed to their rules changes...
...tried to give it to him through learning, understanding and religion," says Sam Bernstein. "With ruach Elohim a man does not become dizzy when he reaches high places. Without it he is nothing, and the food in his mouth is like straw...
...life. In New York City, in 1910, he found a job cleaning fish underneath the Brook lyn Bridge, for $1 a day. After a while he managed to get himself "in hair" ? he worked in a wigworks that made "rats" and "transformations." By the time Lennie was born, Sam had moved to Boston's Allston section and was building a prosperous business of his own as a beauty-parlor supplier...
Possibly because he has promised that he will not be a candidate, Billy Blakley's arrival in Washington touched off unusual harmony among the capital's Texas contingent. Smiled Sam Rayburn: "This is the first time anything political has happened in Texas that was unanimous...
...from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Sometimes they even slug law-abiding...