Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson rumbled against Dirksen's "sneak play"-and pulled off one of his own. He got Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, ardent champion of civil rights, to offer a motion to "table" the bill-a congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...
...active campaign plans. Over a spot of "unspiked tomato juice," she drawled: "I hope the Republicans won't hold this against me. Some of my best friends are Republicans. They have all the money, and they're the ones who can afford to buy tickets to my play...
...army.* The elder Ives was an inveterate experimenter with sound: to get new group effects he would place part of his band on the village green in Danbury, part in a church steeple, and the rest on the roof of a house on Main Street, inviting them all to play together. By the time young Charles Ives got to Yale, he was already shocking his instructors with his own experiments on weird harmonies and erratic rhythms...
...Ives band concert that Grant made his famous reply to Lincoln when asked if he enjoyed the music: "I can't tell," he said. "I know two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't. Which one did the band play...
Jorge Lehmann, a member of the Harvard varsity, will play Bahcall for the men's title. In the mixed doubles, Miss McDermid and C. Elliott will face Jean Alexander and Watkins...