Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course at Norfolk's ASW Tactical School, whizzed through studies in sound detection in New London, dropped anchor at Key West's weapons-testing center, climbed aboard every nuclear submarine in the Atlantic, visited destroyers, jawed with officers and bluejackets. Next he ordered a "cross-pollination" program, sent his aviators aboard submarines, his sub skippers into helicopters, his destroyer men into 52Fs. He put airplane pilots at the helms of submarines to help work out tactical underwater maneuvers...
Finally, thankfully. Congress reached the last major order of business. Sent to the White House after closing night: a keystone bill providing $3,298,092,500 for foreign aid and mutual security. The final total was $220 million more than the House wanted, $220 million less than the Senate had previously voted, and $652 million below the total that President Eisenhower originally requested...
...House sent to the White House a social security bill that raises the benefits for 12 million people by 7%. Included in the bill: tax increases for 75 million workers so as to put social security on a pay-as-you-go basis...
...Senate finally approved the appointment of W. Wilson White, 52, as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's new civil rights division. White's confirmation had been stalled since February by Southerners, infuriated because White fixed the legal basis on which President Eisenhower sent troops into Little Rock...
Robert ("Barney") Baker, liar, thief, union bullyboy and hash-house voluptuary, plopped his 284 Ibs. into a red leather chair facing the McClellan committee. For the next two days Teamsters' Organizer Baker answered questions while the heat from overhead television lamps sent sweat from his pomaded hair down his neck into a wilted white collar that flapped outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used...