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Through the years, Connally's biting wit was feared by his Senate colleagues. He once snappishly advised New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges that he should "approach these matters with an open mind instead of an open mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with...
...Manager Roy Hamey wanted to retire, Ralph Houk looked like the right man for that job, and with Yogi taking over on the field the Yankees could at least expect a rise in attendance. Even if they lost, Yogi was sure to tickle the turnstiles. For once, Berra was speechless. He kept mum about it all year long, just standing there in the first-base coach's box "observing," as he put it, "by watching." A couple of other clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles-had ideas about Berra, too. The Yankees politely told them...
Keep Talking. Peking's punch was neatly timed to catch the Kremlin off balance. It landed on the eve of a special Central Committee meeting called to discuss Russia's internal ideological troubles. For four days the Russians were stunned and speechless. Finally the Central Committee angrily announced that it would not even bother to publish Red China's "distorted, unwarranted attack...
...executives of Du Pont. U.S. Steel sends large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...
...patient, who had been injured in a collision between his light car and a heavy truck, was deaf, blind and speechless; he had no reflexes at all, and he did not show any pain reactions. The full medical diagnosis, reported in the magazine Medical World News, reads like a lengthening catalogue of doom...