Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, although the surrender was more disorderly than planned. Knowland had hoped to put Dewey over when California was called. He called the delegation into a floor caucus, which looked like a football huddle, and told them that Warren had released them. But before the balloting began, Knowland saw John Bricker lumbering up to the rostrum. With none of his usual forensics, John Bricker announced simply that he had a statement from Taft. "I release my delegates," he read from notes, "and ask them to vote for Dewey." Knowland was right behind Bricker, pushing aside Stassen, who wanted...
Brief Revolt. Delegates were confused. Ohio had been nursing hopes for Bricker. Started by Arizona, a movement to nominate Harold Stassen rippled across the floor. Halleck rushed over to Arizona, warned: "You're sticking your necks in a buzz saw." The ripple died. Warren was nominated by acclamation...
...Virginia-born Hugh Scott, a Navy commander during the war, saw service in Iceland, Europe and the Pacific, also did a wartime stint as an ordinary seaman on a merchant marine tanker. He was defeated for re-election in 1944, after rousing Democrats to cries of "snobbery" and angering many of his own party with his definition of Republicans: "We are the best stock. We are the people who represent the real grit, brains and backbone of America...
...Philadelphia last week, the television camera was more important than a good political slogan-and more frightening than a powerful political enemy. Never had a national convention been so continuously and fully mirrored. Thanks to TV, about ten million spectators along the Eastern seaboard actually saw the convention in action. In scattered communities across the U.S., five million others saw telefilm versions while the news was still warm-three to 24 hours after it happened. It was far & away the biggest gallery television had ever...
London's famed Sadler's Wells company was putting on a new ballet. The orchestra struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly...