Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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McCarthy hustled his alleged "57 card-carrying Communists" out of sight (after naming not a single one), and declared: "I am willing to stand or fall on this one. If I am shown to be wrong on this, I think the subcommittee would be justified in not taking my other cases too seriously...
McCarthy had said he would stand or fall on the case of Lattimore. It looked as if he had fallen...
...against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...
...Yugoslavia has kept the rubber ballot-with one significant change. Formerly, soft rubber balls were used; since they made no sound, it was a true variation of the secret ballot. Now, hard rubber balls are used; though they drop noiselessly, rumor has spread among Yugoslavs that they fall with a distinct "plop!", and that anyone who does not choose the Titoist list proclaims himself as publicly as a medieval leper with a bell...
...things stand now, Broward Craig, a member of last year's squad who has improved greatly this fall, will fill the number one slot. Although Craig did not make his letter last year, his rapid improvement and spring trip experience will make him tough against any opponent. Captain Hilliard Hughes was unable to compete in the fall for the number one position due to a wrist injury and is opening the season at number two. Last year Hughes won both his singles and doubles against Yale. Hughes and Craig will form the first doubles team...