Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having used up his full ten days of grace, President Truman must tomorrow either approve or reject the 80th Congress' stab into organized labor's bowels, the Taft-Hartley Bill. Faced with this and three other measures designed to break finally the New Deal's influence on the country, the President must realize that this week the long-pending fight between a Republican legislature and Democratic executive has come out into the open, and will remain aired until next year's crucial elections swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve...
...When a Deputy paid tribute to 'the sons of France who have fallen in Indo-China, innocent victims of the Viet Nam's stab in the back,' all Deputies save the Communists rose in silent homage. Thorez half rose, then subsided...
Both the Freshmen and Varsity will do battle at the Indoor Athletic Building today, with the Yearlings parrying Andover in their third match. Although they were whipped badly by a quick-thrusting Worcester aggregation on Wednesday, Van Roosen is confident of their ability to stab the prepsters into submission today...
...asset side of having a politician as Secretary of State in a time of crisis was Byrnes's handling of Henry Wallace's stab-in-the-back. One French diplomat who has watched Byrnes for a year made a point: "Never in our hearing did he utter a word of criticism of either his President or of Wallace. That showed me he was a loyal man-but also, which is perhaps better-that he was a damn smart politician. Politician is a word which has got a bad connotation in many parts of the world. But there...
...Theatre Inc.) remains, after 40 years, one of the fine things in the modern theater. What seems strange is that 40 years ago it should have been so furiously attacked. Yet the half-whimsical satire of Synge's folk comedy enraged Dublin's patriots as a stab at Ireland, and incensed her puritans by mentioning a woman's "shift."*A few years later, in Manhattan, explosive Irish Americans started a theater riot that ex-President Teddy Roosevelt, seated in a box, aborted by speaking up for the play...