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...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
Aside from a slight case of indigestion incurred among the outfielders in the incurred among the outfielders in the heat of the midday jonquil sun, the Lampooners managed to stave off bid after determined...
Munro isn't worried about the wind of the cold, however. The average lacrosse player is a pretty tough baby; a few gusts of March wind can scarcely affect someone who spends several hours a day enthusiastically clubbing fellow men with a four to six foot long stave, and being clubbed in return...
...Before he finally announced his retirement, Chiang Kai-shek tried to stave off disaster in the war with the Reds by doing all but one of these...
...problems pressed upon the President. The bottom had dropped out of the Buenos Aires stock market. During the week, persistent selling wiped out as much as 36% of the values of blue-chip stocks. Frantic brokers, encouraged by the government, called a one-day strike in an attempt to stave off the collapse. Next day the market sagged worse than ever...