Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking as if the U.S. and not the British-French were responsible for the Suez catastrophe when the U.S. had striven desperately to prevent it, even Mike Mansfield left himself open to the counterblast of Wisconsin's Alex Wiley that the patently anti-Dulles nature of the stalling on the crisis was "blatant, befuddled badgering," and that the U.S. people would so judge...
Democratic and Republican Congressmen alike joined in the chorus of praise for the President's dedication to "the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails." Ike, crowed Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, had "laid it right on the line, not only to the American people but to the world." The Senate's top Democrat, Texas' Lyndon Johnson, said the Eisenhower speech had "set forth goals and objectives with which every American will agree...
...boasted Georgia's Richard Russell, who frequently opposed, "do not have to fear that they will be sandbagged in the back of the head in any legislative dark alley." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, but go ahead and do some more," sang Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "No greater patriot ever served his country," defiantly barked Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. Tennessee's Albert Gore added he had heard it proclaimed that "when Bill Knowland takes a stand, he stands as if his feet were in concrete." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges was sobered...
Modified Wellesley. Songstress Lea (from Leacock) is bedeviled by the fact that her singing reminds people of Lovelorn Jazz Singer Lee Wiley-a matter of pleasure to others and pride to herself, but bothersome nonetheless. She stands quietly before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked...
...elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...