Word: simmerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
...Arab nation. The idea in modern times sprang up first about 1870 at, of all places, Beirut, among, of all people, Christian Lebanese students of the American University of Beirut. U.S. education, received by Christian Arabs, was the first modern catalyst in the retort where Arab unity began to simmer and then to boil...
Thank you for the hilarious Dec. 30 article, "Summit Simmer." May I suggest that Art Buchwald of the Herald Tribune take over as White House Press Secretary? At least he has a sense of humor, something totally lacking in Ike's little bulldog...
...onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that he would "get even with the Trib." After calling his press conference half an hour early, he primly informed newsmen-among them Buchwald-that the Buchwald column "at no time" resembled "what I ever said at a public briefing...
This seemed to be a perfectly logical explanation and as the Princetonian was happy to accept this, the miniature crisis seemed to have come to a halt. But the teacup had not stopped boiling, it had just slowed to a simmer for a day. On Wednesday, the President of the Lampoon gave his answer to Princeton in particularly blunt terms...