Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halleck, at home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...allies off from taking part in whatever decision making might eventually result. "Harold," said the President, "I want you to know that I mean it when I say I have no intention of 'negotiating' with Khrushchev." Macmillan replied that his government understood this quite well and had perfect confidence...
...Congress in all but the first two years of his Administration, Dwight Eisenhower built up a remarkable record of making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget...
...cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents, and so she breaks out of the snug roundhouse and into an office job at a nearby...
...energy into electrical energy. The signals are coming in loud and clear." If its perigee edges in too close to the earth, the paddle-wheel satellite still has a 5-lb. kick rocket that can be fired to elongate its orbit; last week's launching was such a perfect shot that the kicker was not fired...