Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that not a voter forgot it-especially on primary day, April 5. "I cannot win by competing in glamour or in public relations," cried Humphrey, who knew very well that the polls put him behind Senator Jack Kennedy. "The Kennedy forces are waging a psychological blitz that I cannot match. I'm not the candidate of the fat cats . . ." Humphrey followers bitterly accused Millionaire Kennedy of trying to buy the Wisconsin primary...
...Folio. Under the general supervision of the Joint Committee on Printing, the Record's front-line troops are the official debate reporters, who catch the words uttered in the congressional chambers and get them down on paper. Reporters follow a debate like a mobile audience at a tennis match, use shorthand rather than stenographic machines so that they can more easily move from place to place in the chambers. Each reporter spends a five-minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office...
...might be expected, a comic invention of this sort is the mother of some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint...
...machine. Since the computer kept books for both accounts, the auditors, for eight years, always found the company balances in perfect order. Even so, as a further precaution, Haderer never took more than $3,000 a month. As a check on the computer, the company required slips to match the punch cards for all deposits and withdrawals. Haderer slipped up on the slips. When Walston decided this year to audit its employees' trading accounts independent of the general audit, it found cards in Haderer's account that had no corresponding slips. An old-fashioned check of Haderer...
...music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick flattered the Queen of Spain into a doubles match (Queen Victoria, with Vincent Richards, beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Myrick...