Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the final vote, the resolution failed for the second straight year to get the necessary two-thirds majority. The score: 39 yes, 22 no, 20 abstentions (including the U.S.).
Said one member of the U.S. delegation: "You know, you sweat like hell, cable like hell, lobby like crazy in the corridors-and then it's finally all over and it doesn't mean a thing. This resolution was so meek it wouldn't have scared Louisa...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum...
Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check...
When the "secretarial rooms" are full, the M.P. and his staff descend to one of the stifling little cubicles located in an area called "Queen Mary." Five years ago a parliamentary select committee complained of the "bad ventilation" of these cubicles, and last week Minister of Works Lord John Hope...