Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders left the counterattack to the men best able to get away with it-the veterans in the House. Colorado's Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
Critical legislation such as rent control (due to expire March 31) and ECA appropriations were tied up. Something had to give. At week's end, in an atmosphere of dull obstinacy, members came to a bitter showdown...
Chasing Fleas. Opposing factions had moved up to the showdown with the customary elephantine senatorial ceremony. Moodily watched by their Northern colleagues, the Southerners had continued to plod through their filibuster. Any good Southern orator, standing on his head, could have done all the talking that was required...
...best-in-group prize (boxers, Great Danes, collies, German shepherds, etc., classified as "working breeds"), and won again. It was easier than baiting boars. When the six group-finalists-a Welsh terrier, a Dalmatian, a miniature pinscher, an Irish setter, a greyhound and Zazarac Brandy-gathered for the showdown, it took tuxedoed Judge Tom Carruthers III just 15 minutes to single out Brandy as best-in-show-and dog-of-the-year...
...fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three...