Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...
...support from Bostonians who were willing to support what publicity director Catherine Huntington calls "pure theater with no commercialism, which is attractive to the artist element." The mailing list has come to include 1,200 possible season members ($10) or patrons ($35). So the Theatre has moved onto very solid financial ground...
...lead and a follower who does not follow." When it came time to operate, the Labor leadership's hand began to shake a little. It was not easy to pare down the clever and glamorous rebel from the coal fields of Ebbw Vale. While he offends the solid, burgherlike Labor leaders with his wild speeches on foreign policy and scares away perhaps 1,000,000 middle-of-the-road Britons who might otherwise tend toward Labor, Bevan has a rebel's popularity in the streets, shops and mines of Britain. For two hours the leaders debated what...
...Britain could build a new "little NATO,"the bases could safely be turned over to it. The planes and men would remain largely British. But they would be there not by imposition of a "colonial" power, but as partners in mutual defense. Thus, the West would gain more solid bastion in the shifting political sands of the Middle East...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 10--A smooth Michigan sextet with a solid defensive wall waited out seven spasmodic penalties and still had enough time to score a crushing 7-3 victory over the varsity hockey team here tonight before a capacity crowd of 2,700 at the Broadmoor Ice Palace...