Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...types) troop into Emerson, Sever, and Building T-4 (built on the site formerly occupied by Memorial Church). They will hear the lecturettes; they will sit in on the think sessions and RH-29-X meetings; they will be happy in their own inner-directed, typical way. Bronson will take the 11:48 home, sad but wise, and enroll in some third-rate community junior college...
Nixon will get the Republican nomination, McCormack predicted, because he said President Eisenhower has let him take over "pretty good control of the party machinery" including influence on appointments, patronage and other matters...
...your man? He is too puffed up with conceit to see that he is no leader; he is just a front man for a gang of adventurers and torturers who disobey his most solemn orders under his nose and get away with it. A once great country and people take another long stride toward a Fascism that bids fair to combine the cruelty of Naziism with the bumbling incompetence of the Falange. If you think that France is going to be ruled by enlightened capitalists and a kind of Gallic modern republicanism, then your ignorance of the most elementary facts...
...years past, Bill Knowland sometimes dominated the legislative conferences, making ponderous speeches on the coequality of the executive and legislative branches of Government. But last week the new leaders made constructive suggestions at a session marked by far more give and take than before. Charlie Halleck, for example, came up with a plan to invite White House aides and Cabinet officers to House Republican Policy Committee dinners. "Good," said President Eisenhower. "I think it's a fine idea...
...Grisly Package. Belli's most noteworthy contribution to tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert...