Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maid found Joanne Connelley Sweeny Patiño, 27, unconscious and pale, breathing heavily. Two hours later, the rich little poor girl was dead-of a heart attack, the doctor said. By her bedside was her mother; her last decision on behalf of the golden girl had been to send for the priest...
...Missouri River, his smile glowing and real. Excerpts: ¶ On how to recommend laws: "Well, sir, you write 'em down in a message, you try to think things out and see what'd be best for the country, then you make a message on it and send it down to the Congress, and they act on it or they don't, as they please." ¶"That's the chair that I used all the time that I was President. [To Jimmy] Come around here, young man, see how it fits ... Now sit up there...
Southern Democrats, desperate for support against a Republican move to put the House's civil rights bill on the Senate calendar, offered Northern Democrats a swap: vote with us to send the civil rights bill to the Southern-dominated Judiciary Committee, and we'll vote with you on Hells Canyon...
...Howard Smith and his hundred sympathizers were driving for quick consideration of the amendment before emotion wore off, Martin forced a delay. The extra time not only allowed him to win back some doubting Republicans but stretched the Southern arguments too thin. Virginia's Smith could only send in additional orators to rehash the same old points. The atmosphere in the air-conditioned chamber gradually changed from interest to boredom to sweltering bitterness...
...which professes friendship for this country and natters the administrators of this program. Sooner or later, however, the people of this country will pay a terrible price for this unmitigated folly." Herman Talmadge settled for less erudition and more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory that used to send his Georgia wool hats whooping and stomping, the freshman Senator spelled out what he declared to be specific flaws. "While many of our farmers cannot get their crops to market over muddy roads," said Farmer Talmadge, "we build a huge six-lane turnpike in Portugal to a gambling resort...