Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands, smites the bare behind of the boy six times. He then hands the birch back to the prepositor and rustles out of the room again. No word has been spoken...
...hobble the Democrats. He charged in again when Majority Leader Scott Lucas called up a resolution to give Government employees a four-day weekend for the inauguration. The Truman inauguration, he said, was proof of his earlier remarks about extravagance. He lamented: "I wonder what has happened to the word 'economy...
...There are many items which the Democrats have added," Morse persisted. "I call the attention of the Senator ... to the calliope which will tag-end the circus." Morse had the last word, but Government employees got their four-day weekend...
Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
...ranting John Rankin off the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Administration leaders ruled him off because he was going to be chairman of another committee (Veterans' Affairs)-a technicality specially thought up to get rid of him. Rankin was not surprised. Fortnight ago he grumbled: "The word seems to have come down from Moscow to keep me off." On another technicality (that all committee members be lawyers), Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, a fellow Dixiecrat of Rankin's, was also unseated. With the Administration so far in charge, the 81st Congress was on its eager...