Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the reasons, the effect of the announcement was to throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination...
...days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will not run again. On the Democratic side, Adlai Stevenson will get the nomination; but Harry Truman, once bitter against Senator Kefauver, this time will throw his weight to Kefauver for Vice President...
...general comment on local diplomatic relations, he concluded, "Instead of talking about hanging Vellucci, I think we ought to talk about hanging Curry and Pusey, and throw Teele in with them...
...Were these movements of troops and aircraft designed to suppress the satellite rebels? Were they designed to keep the war brewing in Egypt? Was the Kremlin, its battle for men's minds irretrievably lost in the bitter killings of Budapest, now preparing to stake all on a single throw? Or was it all a Communist bluff...
...patient, a 42-year-old woman, had trouble squeezing through the doors of Surgeon Eames's clinic. Dr. Eames faced a hard decision. One school of surgeons holds that it is too dangerous to remove a big tumor intact because this may throw the patient into shock; another holds that it is more dangerous to drain the tumor first and then remove the husk, because fluid containing malignant cells may spill into the abdominal cavity. Surgeon Eames decided to run the risk of shock, try to get the tumor out unbroken and undrained...