Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been calling for since last spring...
...major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...
Benson's successor will also have to drop the old assumption that the years of lean harvests come along and reduce the burdensome surpluses piled up in bountiful crop years. By old-fashioned norms, 1960's wet spring, instead of leading to record harvests, should have brought on poor crops, by interfering with farmers' spring sowing. But modern farm mechanization makes it possible for farmers to get their sowing done fast, during brief letups in the weather. Now a wet spring, storing up ground moisture for summer, brings bigger crops-and bigger headaches for the Secretary...
...election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters of Southern Baptist churches in Rainelle, W. Va., Phoenix, Ariz., Greensboro, N.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. One clergyman of the Nazarene Baptist...
...asked a perfumer to create some scents for her spring showings. He presented her two series, one numbered from 1 to 5. the other 20 to 24. Highly superstitious, Coco said: "I am going to show my collection on the fifth day of the fifth month. I'll choose No. 5." The elegant, evocative odor lingered, and Chanel No. 5 became the world's most famous perfume. Though she sold the perfume subsidiary in 1924. she still gets a royalty on every bottle sold...