Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of-the fight, Sam Rayburn's top lieutenant, Missouri's Richard Bolling, based his strategy on a civil-rights sleeper that had somehow slipped unnoticed into the Landrum-Griffin bill. The Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony...
...shocked, Jimmy Roosevelt arose on the House floor and blurted the red word that Bolling had hoped to spring at the very last minute. Jimmy had found a "silver lining" in the Landrum-Griffin bill. And he told the Southerners just where to find the actual civil-rights sleeper, hidden in Section 609. The Southerners panicked just as Dick Bolling had predicted, but it was still 24 hours before the final vote-and it proved to be ample time to work out an amendment to get the civil-rights sleeper out of the bill...
...cannot believe her success, Felicia sweats out each entrance with nail-gnawing tension. But once in the spotlight, the lady is a cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith's recorded sleeper, Song from Moulin Rouge, has since given herself the polish of a pro. No longer does she settle for the stiff, tight-backed stance, the black, high-necked dresses and Peter Pan collars with which she turned her earliest act into a vague imitation of French Songstress Edith Piaf...
...Alarm. A bed that wakes the sleeper in the morning by raising him to a sitting position was announced by the Simmons Co. Plugged into a clock radio, the motorized bed rises slowly when the timer turns on the radio, TV, coffee percolator and phonograph, can also be raised for nighttime TV watching or meals in bed. Price...
...Rabbit Trap was apparently intended as a sleeper, but seems likely to wind up as what the exhibitors call a caboose-the back end of a double bill. In a way, it's a pity. As a social prescription, the story proposes a too simple cure for conformism, but it provides, as a sort of fable for the times, a useful moral: not all rabbits have long ears...