Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song. From Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel...
...group gathered around a young boy they remembered later only as Peter. Unable to find his father and mother, he went to his knees and said the rosary aloud. Six young girls sat together on the canted deck and sang to keep up spirits. Another circle told jokes. Mrs. Sam Frlekin of San Pedro, Calif, grabbed a rail she was to clutch for almost three hours and offered a short plea: "Dear God, help me hang on." The ship's list increased to 45°. Captive water from Andrea Doria'?, three swimming pools splashed back across the decks...
...action from the Philadelphia Main Line to the equally posh confines of Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives...
...standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip shots sharp, his putting amazingly accurate. With the additional help of body English on the greens, Burke beat Florida's Ted Kroll 3 and 2, to become the only golfer besides Sam Snead to win the Masters and P.G.A. tournaments in the same year...
...Capone bodyguard, Sam was the first to discard the accustomed violin case, carried his Tommy gun in a golf...