Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally of Texas and toothy, grey-shocked John W. McCormack, House Majority leader, the strategists started the bill through the mill in the House first, thus bypassing the usual dragging delay of the jogging Senate pace. By starting the bill in the House, with a steam roller set to pancake all opposition, the Administration hoped this week to rip the bill through to passage in two days of closed hearings, two more days of limited debate, and shoot the bill over to the Senate by week...
...were friends in a big happy family, looked with dismay on isolated instances of Army democracy: officers drinking off-duty with enlisted soldiers, officers soft and indecisive in their enforcement of quick, football-field obedience. There was no question about it: the U.S. Army, model 1941, had plenty of steam, but it lacked snap, dash, spit & polish...
...summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses, soon had so much mail that the local postmaster's salary had to be raised. Eventually Yale nabbed him; it took Yale's largest lecture hall to hold his students; he had more mail than the university itself. They called him "a steam engine in pants...
...Steam pressure was reduced, all lights on ships in this "port of mercy" were turned off, and military guards posted...
...year promises to be Paxson Gifford, a Morcersburg product who broke up last year's Cornell game with a beautiful open-field run down to the Big Red 15-yard line. Faster even than Jack Welsh, who bothered the Harlowmen so much last year with his sudden bursts of steam, Gifford takes Frank...