Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...over the U.S. than all other Senators combined, the issue of Reds in Government had waned (except in Joe McCarthy's home state), and some Republicans were nervously wondering whether it might yet boomerang. Rising prices and taxes bothered most people, but not even the smartest politicians could make out whom the voters blamed. The Republicans were left with the traditional war cry of opposition: "Throw the rascals out." The Democrats, pointing to high farm prices, wages & profits, warned against changing horses, and (as they have for 18 years) ran against Herbert Hoover...
Champagne & Vishinsky. Afterwards, however, when he was taken into the yellow-walled U.N. dining room for a reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
...Statistician Louis Bean, an Agriculture Department economist who charts elections as a hobby: "This is still a Democratic year with Republicans likely to make approximately normal mid-term gains in both houses of Congress-but Democrats to retain control." To gain control, Republicans would have to keep the 169 seats they now hold in the House, pick up 49 more, pick up seven more seats-in the Senate...
Thoroughly scared, Democrats last week decided that they just couldn't explain Tubbo. They did the next best thing; they tried to make the voters look somewhere else. Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic candidates. Over these expendable faces the paste and bucket brigade slapped a mammoth photograph of Harry Truman holding aloft the hand of Scott Lucas. The legend on the poster: "For World Peace and Continued Prosperity-Vote Democratic...
...that if we were going to stay in the bidding at all, we would have to go at least $325,000." Then he decided that the Brothers would probably reason the same way, and since they wanted to win, would probably raise it another $5,000. That would make their bid $330,000. But then the Brothers might suspect Dr. Ferrin of the same reasoning, and add another $1,000 to the bid to cinch it. Apparently having judged the Brothers correctly, Dr. Ferrin added another $1 to top them...