Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine to attack the whole U.S. foreign-aid program. "I refuse to ... buy a pig in a poke without knowing its size or weight ... As a matter of fact, we do not even know if there is a pig in the poke . . . We must start tapering off the foreign-aid program if we ever hope to have a program of fiscal responsibility at home...
...soft on Communism. Clasping his hands on the table in front 'of him, Brennan answered Joe's questions calmly. But even when Joe gave it up as a bad job, he could still fall back on the explanation he had made at the hearing's start: "I don't have any high hopes of being successful in opposition to Justice Brennan's nomination. I have great fear that the left wing-and I emphasize the left-wing Democrats-and the so-called modern Republicans-just what that means I don't know...
Arkansas' cautious, conservative Democratic Senator John McClellan peered around the U.S. Senate's crowded caucus room, squinted into television's bright lights, and permitted himself a rare extravagance: he and the seven other members of a special Senate committee were about to start work on a "stupendous" job. Lawyer McClellan was not far wrong. The job: investigating labor racketeering. The starting point: the mighty (1,400,000 members) International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its activities in the Pacific Northwest, home bailiwick of Teamsters' President Dave Beck (who was conspicuous last week by his continued sojourn...
...said, 'You don't have to be so-and-so afraid of me. I don't wire up my place.' I said, 'I am not afraid of you wiring it up, Mr. Brewster.' He said, 'I am going to tell you to start with I don't like the people you represent.' I said, 'I don't represent any people, just Jim Elkins.' He said, 'Well, I am going to tell you something else. I make mayors and I break mayors, and I make chiefs of police...
Doug Fitchen and Bob Scrivner will head the epee squad. Tony Enders has been promoted from the "B" team to start in the third slot, while Bill Chapple will be ready for substitution...