Word: leeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Republican Leader Charles Hal-leek: "If one of our naval vessels ... or a squadron of our planes were attacked over the high seas, under your amendment they could not even fire back until Congress decided to do something about it." Massachusetts' Republican Congressman Richard Wigglesworth said that the amendment could be construed "as an invitation to further aggression in Indo-China." Said Ohio's John Vorys, the House's Republican foreign-policy leader: "Telegraphing your punch is bad, but telegraphing your enemy that you are not going to punch is worse ... I suggest that in this...
...morning, outside his single iron-roofed room, the doctors, nurses and native helpers of his hospital at Lambaréné gathered to sing hymns, then came in to offer their good wishes and presents. At the birthday breakfast, the dining-room table was gay with sprays of leek and fennel, a clump of eggplants, a few cabbage leaves-for Doctor Schweitzer does not approve of cutting flowers, or killing anything that is not needed for food. Later in the day, the patients brought their presents: a handful of nuts, a newly laid egg, a piece of fruit...
...Graduate Commons has been using these trays since the beginning of the year, and they are unsuccessful, if not dangerous. There is, first of all, no starting point on a circular tray; the unsuspecting diner may find himself commencing his meal as often with a grapefruit as with a leek. Worse that that, the circular trays tend to revolve under the slightest pressure of fork or finger; the centrifugal force generated by a hungry student can send sprays semi-liquid food onto his neighbors. A spinning tray can also cause dizziness...