Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibility of a big Eisenhower victory, the Republican chances for controlling the Congress were enhanced. Historically, the congressional elections are strongly influenced by presidential trends, and the Republicans now stand better than even to win the House. The Senate is more in doubt, since ten Republican seats are at stake in close states as against seven Democratic. Best G.O.P. breakthrough hopes are in Kentucky and New York. But at week's end Democrats are generally favored to win Republican seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania, which would still give them control by 49 to 47. Democrats have dwindling outside chances...
...Lowell lecture series, took pains to emphasize the general principle of medicine of which psychiatry is a branch, "Nothing that the patient divulges during the course of a medical interview may be used by the physician without the patient's permission, unless the welfare of others is directly at stake...
...oldest Yankee pitcher is Ford, at 28, the youngest Kucks, at 23. All season long no combination of Yankee pitchers had put together four consecutive complete games. When the championship was at stake, five of them pitched five...
...party loyalties." In many cases, he found, the economic hostilities of the Depression and the New Deal era, which made the Democrats the "normal majority" party, have been blurred over by prosperity. Moreover, he reported, the "spectacular expansion" of the middle class has given more voters a conscious stake in what they call "the party that's good for business...
...partners in no cities, Merrill Lynch handles everything from commodities to 10% of all trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Founder Charles Edward Merrill always took the gags as a compliment. Over the years, his driving ambition was to convince the small investor that he should buy a stake in the U.S. economy. Said Merrill: "America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots, where it should be, and not in some mythical Wall Street...