Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily Democratic 86th Congress convened in January, few of its members had been more restless within the restraints of the balanced-budget idea than House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was plainly and openly chafing-and when Mister Sam chafes, he chafes hard. His best opportunity so far to tilt the Eisenhower budget came last week, when the House considered housing legislation. The result was one of the roughest and tumblingest congressional fights in a long while...
...swim. In the office from 8:30 to 7:30 p.m. six days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged vacation in six years, manages only a few hours at a time for golfing (mid-80s), boating with his wife Anne and their three daughters, romping with...
...billion to meet U.S. International Monetary Fund obligations. Ike wants that $1.4 billion charged to the hopelessly unbalanced 1959 budget, some $13 billion in the red. Many Capitol Hill Democrats, led by Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, want to list the IMF money in the 1960 budget, which would tilt it heavily out of balance. In predicting a $4.2 billion deficit in 1960, the joint committee report assumed that Fulbright & Fellows would win the argument. Last fortnight the Senate voted 58 to 25 to give Fulbright his way. But last week the House voted 86 to 36 to go along...
...foundations, Edith finds it necessary to visit supermarkets, watch women in bargain basements and cafeteria lines. "To look lovely," says Designer Head, who has been married 18 years, "a woman will suffer. She'll wear a waist cincher that squeezes her, boned bras that dig her, heels that tilt her to the sensitive balls of her feet." But it is all worth it because "clothes have to do with happiness, and can actually give a woman personality. A woman in a bathtub has little personality; she's just a woman without clothes...
That was too much even for Ydígoras supporters, who elected the crusty old soldier last year with a clear awareness that his regime would have stormy moments. While backing the President in his tilt with Mexico, Guatemalans united against Cousin Julia Quiñones Ydígoras...