Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, a master at the art of the possible, had argued against the attempt. "We told them there wasn't a chance of overriding that veto," says a Johnson aide. "They wouldn't listen. They wanted to butt their heads against a wall." Said Johnson after the vote, in pointed reference to his liberal colleagues: "We didn't kid anybody but ourselves." Next day the Senate Banking and Currency Committee approved a substitute, trimmed-down housing bill of $1,050,000,000-$240 million above the amount recommended by President Eisenhower, but perhaps...
Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
...copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity. "Quit your kidding!" he would be told when answering his phone or calling for information. But he really was Winston Churchill, 18, handsome grandson of Sir Winston himself. Young Journalist Churchill, son of Journalist Randolph Churchill, is spending the summer in Manhattan, working at the Journal for experience and for nothing (his student visa bars him from a paying job), will go to Oxford this fall...
...purple shaft or the maroon harpoon. In despair he feels clanked or clutched. He has a similar feeling if a girl merely keeps him in the club (dates many boys and favors none), though it is only fair to add that such girls often end up clawing the wall ("whatever that means," Dr. Boone says delicately...
...Wall Street's bull showed more concern last week over the coming exchange of visits between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than joy in the continued outpouring of record earnings. Some investors in companies with big defense contracts, or in the missile-and space-based electronics industry, dumped their stocks. They felt that any warming in the cold war might bring a cutback in defense orders, even though most Wall Streeters believe that an end to the cold war would be bullish, since it would open the way for a cut in the U.S. budget...