Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued, barking out the words like parade-ground commands: refugee-act amendments, water resources, the Upper Colorado, Frying Pan and Cougar dam projects, customs simplification, minimum wage, the atomic peace ship, Hawaiian statehood...
...years since mordant Lyricist W. S. Gilbert thus mocked Britain's maligned Upper House of Parliament (in lolanthe), Her Majesty's Lords have had less and less to do with the making of British law or policy. Back in 1911, testy Commoner David Lloyd George, with the help of his King, cut the Lords' veto power to a mere delaying action. Six years ago, even their right to delay was curtailed...
Sheikh Ahmed Salem, 80, Egypt's shortest man (2 ft. 4 in.) traveled from his home in Upper Egypt to Cairo seeking Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser's help in recovering his stolen life savings, was photographed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers solemnly paying his respects to Egypt's husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) strongman, who ordered police to investigate the theft immediately...
...Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...itself more important . . ."). One result is that men and women of inherited privilege, who change only slowly, are far less sharply drawn than his self-made types, who thrust through the community on the drive of their greed, hate and hope. When action finally and awesomely explodes, the upper-crusters crumble to bits. An old steelworker's sons, the power-vaunting Bart Mijack and his murderous brother, destroy their family, their union, their community and, in a last, lurid, mountain-top climax, their own lives. This is a big, dark, earnest book with all its wallop in the last...