Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mauled by the heaviest labor-lobby attack since the 1947 "slave labor" campaign against Taft-Hartley, the 30-man House Committee on Education and Labor last week approved a labor-reform bill that was even milder than the Kennedy-Ervin bill sent over from the Senate more than three months ago. G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck, coming from a White House conference, called the bill "a diluted version of a watered-down bill," thus fired the opening shot in the battle to force the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a strong bill or take the blame for none...
...demands that he be fired. Pennsylvania's powerful Governor Dave Lawrence rebuked Butler for washing party linen in public, and West Coast Democrats were still shooting angry sparks because Butler had deleted praise for congressional Democratic leadership from a letter that California's Governor Pat Brown had sent in accepting membership on the liberal-hued Democratic Advisory Council...
...Stauffenberg was shot, and every other man, woman and child by that name was ordered arrested. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose suicide by poison. At least 600 men were either guillotined or strangled by piano wire suspended from meat hooks, and their final agonies were filmed and sent to the Fuhrer...
...Belle became The Body of her generation. Reporters wrote paeans to her "poetic legs." Barnum offered her $1,000 a week to star in one of his sideshows. Diamond Jim Brady squired her about. Teddy Roosevelt came to her flat with friends and enjoyed himself so thoroughly that he sent Belle a full set of Haviland china in appreciation...
...death was artfully arranged. When palace intrigue involved him in a treason charge, he opened his veins, chatted airily with his friends, recited some light poetry; then, placing a manicured thumb to an elegant nose, he wrote out a definitive list of Nero's bed partners and sent it off to the emperor before he lay back...