Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington wits have long remarked that the Senate is called the upper House because it ups appropriations authorized by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate was upping White House proposals. Since the Democrats' thin margin of control did not promise victory for a separate Democratic program, they adopted the strategy of molding President Eisenhower's program to their own expansive fancy. The day after the Senate multiplied Ike's housing program nearly sixfold (see above), it upped the Administration request for a 90?-an-hour minimum wage (v. the present 75? floor...
...Reformation. According to Tower, Dutch refugees carried this flag with them to the southern counties of England, where Puritanism was strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada in 1588. In time it was adopted by both the British and Dutch East India Companies...
...same time, Adenauer put pressure on the Bundesrat (the Upper House) to push through an emergency bill for recruiting army volunteers, without waiting for the complicated enabling legislation setting up terms of the new army...
...direct-mail approach to subscribers, old and new, has always had excellent results. Sometimes they are even amazing. The return, stamped envelopes have brought back keys, rent money, slices of cheese and once, an upper plate of false teeth so dull they could not bite their way out of a paper...
...local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case of moral acne, and itches with integrity in a world he thinks the phonies have defiled. Pam, too, is alone and afraid, caroming between stuffy upper-East-Side guardians, a gorgon of an absentee mother and private nightmares of despair...