Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's fears mounted steadily. Why the delay in a report routinely quick in every up-to-date operating room? By Saturday morning the Walter Reed lab had made its final check. Heaton told Mrs. Dulles first. Then he told Dulles. Shortly before 9 a.m. the final word was passed to the President...
Beer Bottles? All week long, Democratic speakers had paid homage to REA's power. Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy, a strong presidential hopeful, promised that the Democratic Congress would "not go back on our word" by raising REA interest rates. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson sounded a call to man the barricades against any Administration attempt to raise the interest rates: "We will fight them with beer bottles. The time has arrived when you must ask no quarter and we must give none.'' House Speaker Sam Rayburn, co-author of the 1935 act that created REA, asked...
...foreign alliances," the gaunt, black-browed Iraqi general told a press conference, after his victory over army rivals who favored a merger with the United Arab Republic. "The Baghdad Pact is less than a shadow. The word 'ally' applies only to Arab sister countries in our eyes...
Nonsense was precisely the word for much that has been going on in the inner circles of the Cuban government. But the reason for much of it was Castro himself. Never one to stay hitched, he failed to back his Cabinet while making pie-in-the-sky promises to all supplicants...
...have no choice, and I hope there will be no hesitancy," Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said recently about extending the draft laws. True to his word, Rep. Vinson hurried the bill through committee after only superficial testimony from Pentagon representatives, had the House pass it, and delivered his package to the Senate, sometimes a more deliberate body...