Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his ten-minute speech, Administration forces defeated an amendment to earmark $1 billion of EGA funds for mandatory spending on U.S. crops; they also beat down the Irish amendment (see below). The economy bloc did succeed in cutting $250 million from the Administration's proposed EGA appropriation, and pruned $20 million from the President's Point Four program. The foreign-aid bill as it finally passed the House totaled $3.1 billion: EGA, $2.85 billion; Korean aid, $100 million; China and contiguous areas, $100 million; Arab refugee relief in Palestine, $27.4 million; Point Four, $25 million. Next stop...
...ineffective, he has learned how to work with his colleagues, to accept the slowness of Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...
...Navy and Army, it's anybody's guess. Last year the team beat Navy by a close margin, but most of their team is back and has been taking advantage of pre-season sunny weather. Army should be easier. Like the Crimson, the Cadets have been hard hit by graduation and are just beginning to use their outdoor courts...
Columbia received Stanford's offer late last month. After considering its schedule and the Indians' 44 to 0 rout of the Crimson, which Columbia beat only 14 to 7, the university refused the game because "present material did not warrant scheduling Stanford...
...wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...