Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have not laid down the law, and the Irish joke has been damaged because people have found out that Pat and Mike were really not Irishmen. All Irishmen are named Sean ... All this leaves Texas as the thing that the U.S. people can laugh about without looking over their shoulder or lowering their voices, and it is a good thing. The people which can't laugh at itself is going crazy...
...each of these long periods the minority party has been able of course to interrupt the rule of the majority party for short intervals. Indeed, as the problems raised by new developments began to shoulder aside those earlier ones which gave form and shape to the movement itself, the interruptions tended to become more frequent. As the maturing movement loses its fervor, new personalities may give the minority party temporary advantages; long years in office may lead to a lethargy and lowering of standards in the party which was first to identify itself with the general consensus...
...that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able to hold the job from then on." Sieminski replied that he had served in the Army under Swing, who was "no cream puff," and if you "approach him with a chip on your shoulder, he will knock your block off." Then he asked if Hays cared to "step outside." Other Congressmen intervened and brought peace-easily...
...Britain should turn all her energies to these weapons. Her best and most energetic young men should be assigned to organize her publicity. Tell them the truth -good and strong and loud. Truth is fatal to dictators and racketeers. Give it to them straight from the shoulder...
...latest work, Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology, Psychology, and Psychiatry, is being published next week. It is "a very sharp criticism, straight from the shoulder," he said...