Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rains Bill Came. It was on the vote to substitute the Herlong bill for the Rains bill that the crucial test would surely come. Sam Rayburn determined to win at all cost. He summoned his lieutenants, prepared for action, and growled: "I like to lick 'em on the first...
...Republican leaders fought just as hard. Hoping desperately for a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that could push the Herlong substitute through, Minority Leader Charles Halleck lashed the whip as never before. "This is the big test," Halleck told a Republican caucus on the day of vote on the Herlong substitute. "This [Rains bill] is a budget-busting bill if ever there was one-by hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Albania. More than this would be required to justify a further trip to the summit. Casting about for a relatively harmless concession, the Russians indicated that they were willing to be somewhat more reasonable about an inspection system to enforce the long-discussed ban on nuclear testing. To France, which is making its own H-bomb and hopes soon to test it, this was no attraction...
...Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so sensitive that she can feel a pea through a great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title, their fanciful inside fairy story is a feather-light blend of innocent merriment and sophisticated bounce...
Conferring with helicopter people, Raytheon's scientists concluded that a sky station will have to leave the earth under ordinary chemical power and buzz its way up to the spot where the power beams come to a focus. Then its microwave-fueled engine will take over. Test prototypes will carry a human crew, but later models will be automatic. Once they have been maneuvered into the focal spot, they will be kept there by electronic devices which sense when they are beginning to drift out of it. If the supporting beam fails, the station will drift down gently, supported...