Word: striping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic congressional majorities had as good...
...will control Kentucky's delegation to the 1956 National Convention. He has not said which candidate he favors, but his utterances have brought no comfort to Adlai Stevenson. He was for Georgia s U.S. Senator Richard Russell in 1952; he is expected to favor a candidate of conservative stripe in 1956. After setting himself up as a favorite-son candidate, Happy is expected to take to Chicago a delegation instructed to vote for him under the unit rule. From that position, he will be able to trade the Kentucky delegation for whatever he can get. Said one veteran Kentucky...
...shaggy man walked stolidly back and forth in front of the Michigan bench. Under similar pressures, other big-time coaches kick water buckets, curse officials, bully their assistants, and alternately cheer and chew out their players. Michigan's Benjamin Oosterbaan, 49, seems as imperturbable as a 50-yard stripe. But his men know that, inside, he suffers. Says one: "He looks like a character out of a Russian novel...
...when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those pin-stripe uniforms convince a ballplayer that he is just a little better than he ought...
...Dangerating. "Planning to give people presents? Why not a phono-rama for the family, a cholly boss for the kids . . .? Wear-with-all lipstick makes a cheap gift for the wife. Why not write her a check for the handsome celaperm acetate taffeta shower curtain with the elegant lurex stripe...