Word: comment
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Republicans got in a few volleys, too. Said Illinois' Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, when asked to comment on Lyndon Johnson's "panic" remark: "I am so far from panicky that it's not even funny. Never was I more complacent. Never was I more confident - strike out that word 'complacent.' " House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because...
Genial George Allen had no comment on Truman's story. Instead, he helicoptered off to Gettysburg with Ike for a weekend of golf...
After scanning a single page of J. D. Salinger's 1951 The Catcher in the Rye, the most avidly admired novel on modern American campuses, Tulsa's School Superintendent Charles C. Mason had one comment: "Shocking!" Mason was jarred when eight angry parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan...
...policy last March in its prompt official condemnation of Premier Henrik Verwoerd's South African government (ironically, an ally in the Korean war) for its bloody suppression of Negro demonstrations against apartheid. Said the State Department spokesman: "While the U.S., as a matter of practice, does not ordinarily comment on the internal affairs of governments with which it enjoys normal relations, it cannot help but regret the tragic loss of life...
...votes. Lee ran again at Rhee's orders this year and won with an incredible overall majority of 8,300,000 to Chang's 1,800,000. An unswerving apologist for Rhee's policies-he defended the election-day massacre in Masan with the cold comment: "The police were given guns to shoot with, not as toys"-Lee has willingly served as whipping boy for all Rhee's political excesses. In Rhee's eyes, this has more than offset the fact that Lee has appeared in South Korea's National Assembly only a handful...