Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before this session Udall got in touch with other committee Democrats who felt as he did. Together the rebels drew up 16 rules specifying set times for meetings and establishment of regular subcommittees. They got Sam Rayburn's pledge of neutrality, buttonholed other members of both parties to point out defects in Barden's chairmanship: e.g., seven of nine Administration-supported labor requests were pigeonholed last year without even committee hearings. When this session's first Education and Labor meeting was called last week, the rebels had a majority (17 of 30) committed to their rules changes...
...note with interest the comings and goings of an especially free and easy Russian named Vassily Zubilin. Zubilin's official post as a minor functionary in the Soviet embassy was, they discovered, only a cover. Under the aliases Peter and Cooper, he traveled about the U.S. getting in touch with Communist Party members and suspected Red agents. Years after he was recalled to Russia, a Soviet defector identified him as a secret-police general and an overseer of Soviet espionage...
...world that the American concern was genuine and far-reaching: "We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere. And beyond this general resolve, we are called to act a responsible role in the world's great concerns or conflicts-whether they touch upon the affairs of a vast region, the fate of an island in the Pacific, or the use of a canal in the Middle East...
...very success of the battle against polio raised a big question: What happens to the foundation now? Mushrooming since 1938 into an empire with 220 people in its Manhattan headquarters and some 250 constantly on the move around the country keeping in touch with 90,000 volunteers in 3,100 chapters, it has collected 3 billion dimes, has dispensed $28 million for medical and scientific research alone...
...stately home of Lord and Lady Cedely, he shed a footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched...