Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord, sometime Wall Street tycoon and longtime millionaire recluse, now turned glad-handing vote chaser...
Keen on the sporting life since his days as an amateur pug in Prague, barrel-chested Metropolitan Tenor Kurt Bourn asked a former neighbor, Wrestler Antonino Rocca, to demonstrate his headlock technique. As any friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...
...forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridge and slope, through orchard and meadow, and cornfield, magnificent, grim, irresistible...
Along with revived energy, the President has suddenly come to feel at home with his big and little political powers. Never before has he used his veto weapon with such telling effect as in his refusal to sign the recent whole-hog rivers and harbors pork barrel (TIME, April 28) and the Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead...
...MAGIC BARREL (214 pp.)-Bernard Malamud-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...