Word: tying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after another, ideas were passionately debated, defeated by Taft's phalanx of Republicans and Southern Democrats. The fight was so close that Vice President Barkley flew back from the West Coast to be on hand to break any tie...
Cool and demure, Priscilla Hiss corroborated almost everything her husband had said. She denied any part of the Chamberses' story which might tie her husband into any Communist plot. Occasionally she rested her white-gloved hands on the arms of the chair, where Esther Chambers, angry eyes snapping through spectacles, had rested her work-hardened hands...
That evening, without an inkling of the King's intention, Kanellopoulos put on his white tie & tails and went to a going-away party for the air attache at the U.S. embassy. At the embassy's front door, Kanellopoulos all but collided with Michael Ailianos, Populist Minister of Information, who came running out in high agitation. Inside, everyone from U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady down started congratulating Kanellopoulos, who finally caught on. Meantime, Sprinter Ailianos, who had also found out about the Kanellopoulos plan at the party, rushed to Tsaldaris to tell him what was going on. Promptly...
...crusade,' we want to make sure that we are not going to be dragged into unholy alliances. We do not measure a country by its attitude toward the establishment or disestablishment of the Church, as does Rome in the case of Spain, and we refuse to tie up the cause of Christ to the cause of the prevailing social class or political ideology. We finally hope that Rome will refrain from excessive indulgence toward forces of reaction and totalitarian rulers...
...HAVEN, Conn, June 20--It was 1948 in reverse in De Witt Cuyler Field today. Last year, when Yale had a chance for the Ivy League crown, Harvard's Ira Godin shut out the Elis. This afternoon the Crimson has a chance to tie for the League crown for the first time since 1936, an opportunity which was ruined by Yale's 3 to 0 victory...