Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drolly advised former Venezuela President Rómulo Betancourt during a White House call that he should be careful during an upcoming cross-country auto trip because "we've got a lot of crazy drivers in this country"; he commanded Democratic congressional leaders at a legislative breakfast to "switch about twelve votes" in the House so that the Administration's once-beaten pay-raise bill could pass; he told a dead-broke Kentuckian on the porch of his shack to "take care of yourself, now"; and he quietly asked New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating during...
...would come of this. Should we switch our industry to the production of belts, so that we may draw them in tighter? Will this inspire the people to march ahead? To where? Into the grave? What do their own people want-war or rice? I think they want rice...
Monro said the main issue remained the "question of the deadline for registration" for the CLGS. A number of departments, he said, would still like to return to a deadline of December 1, after which an honors candidate could no longer switch from departmental honors to general honors...
...Bertrams were having their own woes. Harold Abbott's Rum Runner developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...
...knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed up-until his reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody and was in front to stay. Up to the Nassau pier roared Rum Runner, and an official waved her in. "Hell...