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...should command NATO's navies in the Mediterranean. Churchill querulously retorted that things "may not all be as unfortunate for this country as [Mr. Shinwell] would no doubt wish." "Withdraw!" bawled the Labor benches at this slur on Shinwell's patriotism, but the Prime Minister's dander was up. Instead of withdrawing, he recklessly peppered the air with further opprobrium: an ambiguous reference to "cosmopolitanism," which is a word the Kremlin likes to hurl at Jews. Laborites booed and hissed as Churchill started to stride out of the House. "Is it in order to boo a member...
...governor has had his dander up ever since the state's school system came under legal fire about a year ago from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A federal district court in Charleston ordered an improvement in school facilities for Negroes, but found nothing illegal in segregation. The N.A.A.C.P., arguing that segregation is an infringement of the 14th Amendment, carried the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has still to pass judgment. If the high tribunal bans segregation, the state's public schools may be replaced by privately operated schools subsidized...
...baseball season opens, Ted will report for his physical. If he passes, he will start getting a captain's base pay ($356 a month) and probably go to work at his old wartime job: teaching cadets how to fly. Airman Williams, an indiscreet talker when he gets his dander up, said the right thing this time: "If Uncle Sam wants me, I'm ready. I'm no different than the next fellow." Just to show that it was impartial-and not out to sabotage the Red Sox pennant chances-the Marine Corps also called...
...strains to get inside Bowie's mind. Author Wellman is more successful when he describes the fightingest man of his day in action, the massive bowie knife flashing, his disemboweled foes falling all about him. No one, it seems, can stand up to peaceful Jim when his dander is up. It is a sad irony that he should be lying helpless on a cot when the Alamo is stormed by Santa Anna's men on March 6, 1836. Even then he sells his life pretty dearly. Bowie's four pistols account for four Mexicans. A fifth...
...Honorable Gent. In a liquor-licensing debate, Lady Astor got A.P.'s dander up by referring to him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped he: "A regular course of narcotics would be extremely good for the noble lady and would make her less restive." As usual, she had the last word: "The noble lady will be restive in this House long after the honorable gent...