Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restore at least $1.2 billion of the cut to avoid "an immediate impact on our defense program." Fitting Old Shoes. "I don't see why we should cut the defense budget at all," said Wilson. "It mystifies me. I don't think the Russians are five feet tall now any more than I thought they were ten feet tall last year" (when Congress pressed on him an unrequested $900 million for enlargement of the Air Force). Virginia's stately Willis Robertson suggested that Wilson apologize for having said a year ago that Congress was "playing politics...
...were after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
Bandwagons in Mayfair. Unity, if it comes at all, will have to be achieved by agreement among the colorful chief delegates: tall, aristocratic Alhaji Ahmadu, the Islamic and potent Sardauna of Sokoto, an Arabian Nights figure in a billowing green turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite...
...riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
Makes maids both tall and strong...