Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only by maintaining a strong, healthy domestic economy, he said, could the U.S. maintain its world leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could not override. With the 86th...
...terms of political philosophy, Halleck's position was equally clear: "What do I stand for? First of all, I stand for a balanced budget . . . We should stop the waste and extravagance and quit piling up the debt." What the U.S. needed was a "new Calvin Coolidge." As international crisis drew the U.S. closer to World War II, Charlie Halleck took his place in the front ranks of isolationism. He voted against Lend-Lease, against the fortification of Guam, against Selective Service. "Enemy ships would have to come...
...protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life "are not for the likes o' me," and more and more of them, in their work clothes, move from the stand-up bar to the saloon bar adjoining, where for a penny a pint more, they can sit at a table. "Before the war," says a pubkeeper, "they wouldn't have dared. Apart from the cold stares they would have received, their mates would have ridiculed them...
Though his papers-particularly Die Welt-have often tempered their pro-Western stands by urging a more conciliatory approach to Russia, Springer's empire has gradually swung toward a firm, unified support of the West's stand on Berlin during the past six months. Says Publisher Springer: "I believe in Germany, a Germany with Berlin as its capital. But not only do I believe in Germany -I want this Germany. And that's why I'm building now in Berlin...
...restates his nightmare with a relentlessness that makes most writers seem uncertain of their way. Yet the vision is too ghastly to be borne in the long run, and with Watt, Author Beckett has conjured it up about as many times as most readers will be able to stand. If Godot was really Beckett's way of saying God, perhaps the only solution for him and his work lies not in waiting but in searching for Godot...