Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned up heads every time," said the Secretary of State, "what would be the probability that it would turn up tails on the eleventh flip?" The study, he said, had helped him in diplomacy. How he reckoned his chances in the eleventh flip just ahead he did not say...
Racket Ruckus. Every member of Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee is fervently against labor rackets, but some members are beginning to raise a private eyebrow at the way Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, 32, runs the show. "The Senators," says a Republican member of the committee, "don't have the slightest idea who is to be called, but we can read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators...
...home of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the armed camp that is Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace...
...knew the book well; he was the dealer who sold it to Bibliophile Poole six years ago. When he heard that the collection was to be sold, Randall hurriedly took an option, needed only 15 minutes to persuade President Wells to put up the money (the university will not say how much...
...reporter questioned this sudden concern for propriety. "We respect public opinion," answered Liz, "but you can't live by it. If we lived by it, Eddie and I would have been terribly unhappy through all this turmoil. But I can shamelessly say that we have been terribly happy. I am literally rising above it." Her words rang all the way to Manhattan, where Pundit Max Lerner wrote in the New York Post: "Where so many people have become desensitized in our world, I welcome this forthright celebration of the life of the senses...