Word: thad
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...there was more to the Texas result than could immediately be seen before voters' ayes, as a second look at the ballots showed. In the winner-take-all field of 22 candidates, little-known Houston Attorney Thad Hutcheson, an Eisenhower-backed Republican, got 220,361 votes, placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough...
With Yarborough the man to beat, Thad Hutcheson was pounding confidently away with his campaign, enormously cheered by the numbers of his opponents. Reckoned he: "A lot of people are going to be influenced by the fact that I can give the President the critical votes he needs in the Senate...
...Republicans have put their bets on Houston Lawyer Thad Hutcheson, 41, a political newcomer who has Ike's personal endorsement in a state that has twice gone heavily for Eisenhower. To head him off, the Democrats have tried for weeks to get a bill through the legislature requiring a runoff between the two top candidates if neither gets a majority. Last week the bill failed, and Republicans were figuring hopefully that the heavy Democratic vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson...
...General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed hat and redlined cape galloping around [Union General George] McClellan during the Peninsular Campaign . . . the incomparable Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg . . . Appomattox Court House and Marse Robert's ride to Richmond . . . Then I thought of the terrible Reconstruction and old Thad Stevens and Ben Wade, who wanted Andrew Johnson kicked out so he could be the President...
...derived from the satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about 1897 when Vuillard was at the height of his sensational youthful success, is full of golden, slightly melancholic elegance. Missia Natanson sits in absolute relaxation and dignity, while her husband Thadée, an editor-friend of Vuillard's, leans contemplatively...