Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheel-Chair Vote. Prayer and preliminaries over, Bailey moved that the Senate go into executive session to vote on the confirmation of Henry Wallace. Such a motion is not debatable. If passed, it meant that the Senate would certainly turn Henry Wallace down. This was the showdown. Did the anti-Wallacemen have the votes? To gather them all, they had persuaded Nevada's pale, ailing James Scrugham, 65, to leave Naval Hospital, had brought him to the chamber in a wheel chair...
...charge the new year with good cheer and put oil to the squeaking wheel of morale, President Harry Magnuson and "charge d'affaires' Hill Harrington have started preparations for an all time high in class dances. It's to be held Saturday, January 27, at the Parker House. Tickets will soon be on sale with all classes invited. The Parker Roof may be a bit ley but it still has the most sentimental lookout in Boston...
...Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...
...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
...Louis air show last fortnight. The plane, it appeared, will be equipped with self-starter, automatic brakes, will be spinproof, stallproof, non-capsizable on landing. One model even got rid of most of the controls, reducing the pilot's job to turning and tilting a steering wheel. Missing from the show, however, was a plane that can fly with an automatic pilot...