Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While carrying out the Eisenhower program, Halleck has also helped bring White House and congressional Republicans closer together than at any other time during the Eisenhower Administration. As never before. Congressmen are informed about Administration aims, and the President gets an accurate and detailed picture of congressional sentiment. Under Halleck's predecessor. Massachusetts' doughty old (74) Joe Martin, and the Senate's obstructionist G.O.P. Leader William Knowland, it hardly seemed possible for Ike to keep his congressional fences in good or der. This year, with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate...
...Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form." Confident that his ability to sway sentiment was as great as ever, Faubus went off on a fishing trip. And last week, while he was gone. Little Rock went to the polls, ousted all three segregationists by margins of 1,500 to 2,500 votes out of 26,000 cast, kept the three moderates in office...
...from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning of all, they allowed children to have no honor or dignity of their...
...board: vacancies can still be filled by the county school board, which seems pro-Faubus. Even an all-moderate board would not mean imminent integration of Little Rock's schools-but simply the first real step in that direction in 20 long months. Whatever the outcome, anti-Faubus sentiment was so rife last week that Faubus himself cautiously announced: "It's the people's business. If they want to recall anybody, that's their right under the law. I signed that law, you know...
...Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) has attempted a novel of pother and passion, and has succeeded only in forcing her story into the mold of cakemix fiction. For those who like store-bought cake, skilled Novelist Janeway has a lot to offer-the smooth batter of dialogue, the raisins of sentiment, and even, here and there, a few nourishing calories of characterization...