Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
...intruders began bludgeoning Parker with a pistol, another with a stick. A third picked up a garbage can and hit him. Parker went down, bleeding. "I didn't do it!" he cried again. "Well, who did?" demanded a man. Wildly, furiously, Parker pointed at his fellow prisoners: "He did it!" The raiders began dragging him toward the stairs. One of them turned to the other five frightened prisoners and warned: "Keep your damn mouths shut!" Parker wailed: "Don't take me out! Don't let them kill...
...small enter prises of their own. He launched a privately financed Business Development Corp., personally headed a campaign that sold $1,000,000 worth of $10 shares (he bought $5,000 worth) for a kitty to back small business. Though B.D.C.'s fund represented only a small stick of capital, Hodges gave it leverage by signing up banks and loan associations to participate in B.D.C. risks. Run by a board of prominent citizens, B.D.C. took part in small loans totaling $5,000,000, created 8,000 new jobs, helped build a climate of confident risk-taking...
...last, the adventurers in the jungle town of Cuchazu have struck it rich-diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. But they never cash in. The government steps in and takes over the diggings for the state. Troops arrive to make the decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest...
This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...