Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going to Washington is "like being taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown into a basket of snakes," remarked Detroit Banker Joseph Morrell Dodge two years ago when he prepared to take over as President Eisenhower's Budget Director. Last week Dodge, who has been back in Washington after a brief absence since he left the Budget Bureau, became Ike's chief snake charmer in charge of developing a comprehensive foreign economic policy...
...basketful of problems awaits Joe Dodge. Differences of approach among Dulles, Stassen, Humphrey and others have stalled Eisenhower's none-too-vigorous past efforts to construct a clear-cut U.S. economic policy for the world (TIME, Dec. 13). Dodge would not go back into the Washington snake pit if he was not convinced that this time Ike is determined to get his foreign economic program through Congress-a task that must begin with agreement inside the Administration...
PRIVATE POWER won another round in the fight over whether the Idaho Power Co. or the Government will develop the Northwest's turbulent Snake River (TIME, May 18, 1953). Lawyers for the Federal Power Commission, which must approve any project on the Snake, have recommended that the Idaho Power Co. be given the job because it will produce almost the same amount of power (although much less flood control) at one-third the cost...
...this is trussed together by hundreds of yards of Composer Tiomkin's sound track-a sort of Faroukish turn ("Come to my tent, O my beloved") on the old snake-dance tune. It may not be much as music, but it's perfect as a truss...
...West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless lives with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo...