Word: wondrousness
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...successfully lobbied through. When the Army Civil Functions Appropriations, commonly known as the pork barrel, passed the House last week, it was a wan descendant of bygone pork barrels. The bill provided $412,391,600 for dams, bridges, other engineering projects dear to the hearts of Congressmen. With wondrous forbearance, the Representatives resisted the pressures and blandishments of lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending foreign aid bill. If Congress...
...Jimmy Plinton, a U.S. Negro visiting Haiti, tried to send a pair of pants to the cleaners. This event set off a wondrous chain reaction which 1) revolutionized Haitians' dress habits; 2) started a major new business in Haiti; and 3) turned Jimmy into one of the most popular characters in the little (Maryland-size) Black Republic...
Electronics men are especially fond of transistors, those wondrous specks of germanium that perform like vacuum tubes while demanding almost no current and generating almost no heat (TIME...
Instead of discussing the charges against him (e.g., had he deliberately lied during his attacks on the State Department?), McCarthy quickly confused the debate with his usual oratorical dust storm. He had "no confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...
...Governor and the National Lancers of Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...