Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep Stuff. Martin did not even send Rayburn the proposal worked out by Keating and Rogers. Instead, newsmen handed Sam a copy. He read it once, grunted, read it again, then again and again, finally announced: "This is very deep stuff. I'll have to have a little more time to digest it." Whereupon he disappeared into his office, taking with him four fellow Texans to aid in the digestive process. The Republicans' "deep stuff": 1) the contempt of court provisions of the bill would apply to violations of voting rights only, and not to all criminal contempt...
...Sing Sing. But there, I'm wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would be the humane action to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic where I had my IQ inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and-guess what?-came home...
...David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...
JAPANESE CARS will soon make bid for share of U.S. market. Japan's Toyota automobile company in September will send over models of its four-door, 55-h.p. "Toyopet Crown de Luxe," which gets up to 69 m.p.h. from four-cylinder engine. Car sells for about $2,400 in Japan...
Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Co., not yet ready with any vaccine, promised to send 500,000 shots, free, to doctors for themselves and their nurses or assistants - enough to take care of all the 180,000 U.S. physicians in private practice and their staffs. Though Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of PHS was convinced that the mutant Asian strain of type A virus had by now been "seeded" in every state of the union (20,000 to 25,000 cases have so far been reported in the U.S.), there was no way of predicting when or where the expected epidemic...