Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional races, particularly for the 48 Democratic seats wrested from the G.O.P. in the 1964 Johnson landslide. With off-year elections traditionally favoring the out party, estimates of G.O.P. gains range all the way from ten to 75 seats. Conceding that the loss of even 25 seats could stall the Great Society, Democratic leaders are nonetheless confident that most of their freshmen Congressmen, beneficiaries of circumstance in 1964, can now hold their own. Says one L.B.J. aide: "They're our great plus factor this election...
...much was tied up in risky long-term investments, depriving the bank of needed cash. Predictably, Intra's closing started a run that threatened to bankrupt other Beirut banks. At a twelve-hour emergency night session, the Lebanese Cabinet ordered a three-day bank holiday to stall for time. To avert another kind of panic, Beirut's stock exchange also closed. So did department stores and shops, bringing business in the city close to a standstill. Finally, the government pledged its $200 million reserves (mostly in gold) to bail out all the banks but Intra, which it feared...
...takes the pressure off the driver during that critical moment of approach." As a result of the test, Abilene will spend $5,900 for three more signals from its home-town inventor, James L. R. Hines, a longtime safety engineer for the Shell Oil Co. Houston plans to in stall 73 of them. And Hines, who spent nine years developing the system to "give a fellow a little better chance," has had inquiries from 19 foreign countries...
...close to perfect, and Kirkland's creaky eighteenth-century library is good on a light-to-medium day. Such facilities can handle only a limited number of students, however, and the next best thing is a room so large that no single person is distracting. In Lamont, a small stall partition is enough to isolate the student from the rest of the room...
...after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston is bush...