Word: steers
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Broad Grant. Bald, faithful Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rushed back from a vacation on his Texas ranch to steer some kind of measure quickly through the House, soon sensed Congress' temper. He and the House majority leader, tall, toothy John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, huddled with the President, made their plans...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...Smoky, Cow Country) in Hollywood. Born in a covered wagon in Montana while his parents were on the trail, he was a working cowhand till a bucking horse injured him, threw him into writing. His mother died when he was a year old, his father was killed by a steer when he was four, and a French-Canadian trapper adopted him and raised him in the wilderness of northwest Canada...
...sensitive, psychological drama for a while, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat most of the evening. And you may not feel like taking the shortest route home through the darkened Yard after two and a half hours of well-played horror. In fact, you may steer clear of all shadowy places for the next few nights...
...pork for everybody-for the Government is buying 30% of the kill for Lend-Lease and the Army, and the new rich are buying meat as never before. The shortage struck first in cities where the ceiling prices were lowest: the packers, squeezed between ceilings and rising hog and steer prices, naturally preferred to sell where the squeeze hurt least...