Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Palace Politics. While Lilienthal's fight with the power companies won the headlines, he had just as much trouble protecting his flanks against marauding New Dealers. Harold Ickes wanted to tuck TVA into the Interior Department. Other New Dealers favored in creasing centralization in Washington, but Lilienthal believed in decentralization, and worked incessantly to keep TVA free of politics or pressure groups...
...salami in a wall safe, sets rattraps to maim any hand that gropes under the sofa for the hidden vodka, and religiously snaps off lights. Lou breaks into the salami safe and religiously snaps on lights. After this epic depiction of character, Playwright Slade can do nothing but tuck the twosome...
Blanket Solution. For all that, no product has so far provoked as many uneasy stirrings in the Common Market as the ordinary blanket. When they sleep, the French like to tuck in their blankets, and they thus require a wider blanket than the citizens of other nations. The Germans, on the other hand, sleep with covers untucked, and the much larger blankets liked by the French irritate them by dragging on the floor. The blanket business is by no means Europe's biggest, but it clearly will have to come up with a physiological solution agreeable to all-perhaps...
Through the four years of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the House has been the more conservative legislative body. This year it passed the Tuck amendment on reapportionment, defeated medicare, and forced Johnson to hold up several bills (mass transit, school and college construction) until deals could be made. When the President got his majority on a bill, the majority was usually small; 44 times in the last four years, according to the National Review, Republican votes have been needed to pass "crucial measures of anti-conservative nature...
...powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills (D.-Ark.), had openly declared he would use every weapon available to prevent such action. And the full House had given ample testimony to its very conservative stature this session by passing such legislation as the Tuck amendment barring the Supreme Court from any consideration of legislative reapportionment...