Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designing drafters, charged he, had "hidden the fact that a Reconstruction Era statute could be invoked under the bill to provide the armed might of the U.S. for enforcement of the bill's provisions. This bayonet force is only a sample of the kind of vicious stuff of which this bill is made." Who were the designing drafters? Rasped Byrd: "I strongly suspect that the modern Thaddeus Stevens* now cloaked in the robes of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme...
...read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka's the stuff for Russians...
...cameras and a troupe of Ireland's best actors before him. In dramatic meanderings most of the commonplaces of the native character are trotted forth-that the Irish are unpredictably gay and gloomy by turns, revile England, drink prodigiously, talk blarney sideways and billingsgate straight-and are the stuff of which natural-born actors are made...
...anti-Stalinism) is also a sentimentalist who believes that Stalinism is wrong but not Marxism. With the snobbery typical of many ex-Communists, Deutscher looks down on other ex-Communists and muses about vintage years-1921 was a good year, and Communism was still fine and heady stuff; 1932 was a bad year, because the party had begun to turn sour...
...cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden, they are lifted by the general upsurge; then they come to the local church and find it drab-it has only the faith, and it's dull stuff after the glamour of their big moment...