Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judgments & Responsibility. ABC's best witness was James Hagerty, Eisenhower's longtime press secretary, who was hired by ABC to overhaul its news service. Hagerty told how "from scratch" he had built "a vital major news operation" in one year, increasing the New York staff by 50%, more than doubling the network's Washington news bureau, and increasing news-programming time by 37%. Hagerty was both impressive and-toward his new colleagues—a bit snobbish. He seemed almost eager to disassociate himself from them...
...growing strength based on its virulent anti-Moslem, antiminority appeal. Jana Sangh's Hindu reactionaries would restrict the rights of Moslems, Christians and untouchables ; they would forbid cow slaughter all over India. Jana Sangh is confident that it can win many Congress voters away from their party. "Scratch a Congressman and you find a Jan Sanghi," says a party leader. But the party is strongly opposed by many Hindus who disapprove of its fanaticism...
...like the piano, whose tone is kept in tune by the tuner," Jascha Heifetz once complained. "Playing the violin is all guesswork; you cannot even scratch a mark on the wood so you can tell where to put your fingers to repeat the right note...
...second difficulty is outlining. In order to keep the question and scratch paper in front of you, it is necessary to shove the typewriter to one side or to change seats. A third possibility, writing while leaning to the left, can be used on shorter tests...
...Scratch & Claw. The Senate, with 64 Democrats and 36 Republicans, is likely to go along with the President on most issues, just as it did in 1961. The House is a different matter. There, though Demo crats ostensibly outnumber Republicans 263 to 174, power is actually divided be tween a conservative coalition of about 180 Republicans and Southern Democrats and about 180 members who can be expected to go along with most Administration proposals. That leaves some 70-75 "uncommitted" members among whom the Administration must scratch and claw to put together a winning margin. In 1962, collecting those uncommitted...