Word: tucks
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Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...
...Lyndon Johnson was painfully aware that Kennedy's medicare pledge remained unfulfilled. If for nothing but the record, he had to make one last, desperate try. Last week he did. In the Senate, Administration forces won approval of a social security-financed medicare plan by a nip-and-tuck vote of 49 to 44. But the prognosis for House approval of the Senate's action was poor...
...Harsh Method." The squeeze was on in the House too. Chief agent of delay there was Virginia's Democratic Congressman William Tuck, 67, and his proposal brooked no "unusual circumstances"; it simply prohibited the federal courts from moving into reapportionment cases period. Tuck's proposal was bogged down in the Judiciary Committee until last week, when Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, boss of the Rules Committee, obligingly lifted it out of Judiciary and started it on its way to the House floor...
...fiery Rules session, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, Judiciary Committee chairman, sputtered angrily about the treatment he was getting from Smith, but was even more dismayed at the potential effect of Tuck's bill. "If you can take away jurisdiction over reapportionment today," Celler said, "tomorrow you can take away jurisdiction over civil rights, and the next day over antitrust cases." Countered Tuck: "This may be a harsh method, but I know no other way to see the right thing done...
...Valley, Solomon Levi, Oh Johnny, Turkey in the Straw, Red Wing and other classics with Fenton ("Jonesy") Jones as the caller. Jonesy's instructions are melodious and comparatively easy to follow, intended for initiates into these arcane rites, e.g., "Box the flea," and "Allemande left with a high tuck a shaw/Take a little bow with your mother...