Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate so often restores the budget cuts he has made. "The Senate piles everything on earth on these bills." he grumps, "and they always wait until the last minute to do it." Cannon always wants the House to insist on its cuts in conference committee. "Sam Rayburn says, 'Hell, we've got to get out of here.' I always say we can't accept this change. But Sam always says we've got to get the hell out of here...
...York and Miami, Frondizi hosted a dinner for Ike and Mamie at the Argentine embassy on Q Street. Noticing Ike chuckling to himself, Frondizi asked what the joke was about. Ike replied that he was thinking of the toast he was going to give: he had decided to say it in Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente y la Señora de Frondizi y las buenas relaciones entre nuestros...
...Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something called AFOAT-1, a special project of the Air Force Office of Atomic Energy so secret that his bosses refused to say they knew...
From the start, the answer was obvious. On his second day, 3,000 Indians swarmed over the University of Delhi campus to see the prince get a D.Sc. They applauded his jokes ("I regret to say that all my degrees are honorary ones"), cheered wildly when he mentioned the last viceroy who so smoothly presided over the transition to independence, "that great friend of India, my uncle Lord Mountbatten." For all its years as a republic,* the land that struggled so hard for independence is still largely dominated by British ways, has not even bothered to take down the portraits...
...Paulo, cried: "He is the shame of our family." Paulo Guillaume snapped irritably: "The billions don't interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing to return to Paris this week, Dominique Lacaze Guillaume Walter, still handsome at 53, broke her long silence to say icily: "This affair is a plot against my brother Jean Lacaze by my adopted son Jean-Paul Guillaume...