Word: seemly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have Wilbur Mills and his committee fallen that House wags are calling it the No-Ways & By-No-Means Committee. The prospects seem dim that Mills will be able to recapture firm enough control to carry out his grand design of re-codifying the nation's patchwork of tax laws. And hardly anyone in the House of Representatives still regards Mills as a potential Speaker...
...judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope that under their own Administration they can start rebuilding toward that nice 80% Democratic judiciary...
...Communist hordes about to descend, of real or imaginary atrocities committed near by, of the fall of a government fort. Sometimes they rowed back and forth across a river to give the impression of large numbers. Sometimes they herded villages of people before them to make an attack seem bigger...
...beaches, the bistros, the boulevards. Among the regulars, a social historian might have noted an evolutionary decline in the Riviera male. His feet are no longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...
...Ilocanos seem to need little excuse to kill. A month ago two men burst into the home of Florentino Lazo at Manzante village, blasted Lazo and his son José with carbines as they sat at dinner. Florentino had been suspected by his killers of recently doing away with Mariano and Isabelo Tayaba-who, in turn, were thought to have killed Lauriano and Pablo Sadabo. Besides, young José was scheduled to testify soon at still another murder trial. Police had all the motives they could want, and jailed two suspects...