Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only four pages of the book are devoted to Shapley, and the authors also examine charges against John Stewart Service, Owen Lattimore, and others in an attempt "to throw down a bold challenge to the writers, teachers, and politicians who regard McCarthyism and Communism as twin evils and who profess to see in the former the more imminent danger to our freedom...
...group of Southern Senators prepared to fight the admission of states which might send proponents of civil rights to Congress. In earlier years these Southerners have been able to win minority party support to combine the two statehood proposals into a single bill, and then use this twin measure as a target for filibustering...
...past sessions of Congress the statehood bill has come to the Senate floor so late that the Southern bloc has succeeded in talking it to death. But this year the twin statehood proposal is ready for discussion early enough for Congress to sit out the vigorous filibuster promised. With judicious scheduling the bill could come to vote this year for the first time since...
...Dixiecrat-Republican coalition is strong enough to defeat the twin statehood bill, as it now seems, a proposal for Hawaiian statehood alone probably could gain the support necessary for Congressional approval. This is what many Republicans hope, and though such tactics are deplorable, they must be faced for what they are. Statehood for Hawaii should not be held up for partisan reasons, even if it means that Alaska will have to wait for a more hospitable Democratic Congress. A climate favorable for joint admission may not come for a decade...
There is a nasty little slur on the theatre and popular taste playing at the Wilbur. Called twin Beds, it is dedicated to the Proposition that people of limited theatre-going experience will enjoy smutty leers and painfully-stressed innuendoes. The audience, seduced by a flood of "complimentary" tickets offering admission at half price, is mainly composed of giggling secretaries and their beaux in tic-less sport shirts: all alive to the glamour of a theatre first night...