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...Sneezed At. Candidate Ferguson sat down amidst applause. He shook some hands and drove off in his 1947 Buick. The following day and the day after, he would bob up in other meetings, often unannounced, to fire the same kind of political birdshot. In such a manner last week, 58-year-old Joe Ferguson, son of a coal miner, was hunting "Mr. Republican" himself. Joe was the cast-iron spearhead of the campaign to get Robert A. Taft out of the U.S. Senate...
...chiefly Robert Taft was running against the Truman Administration and the bosses of organized labor, who had loudly proclaimed their determination to beat him this year no matter what the cost. Not only birdshot was whistling around his ears. Big guns were also booming amidst the buckeyes...
...final impression left by Faulkner's work is that he is a writer of incomparable talents who has used and misused those talents superbly and recklessly. But his book has the excitement that comes from never knowing when, amidst pages of failure, there will come a masterpiece...
When she came onstage in the first-act church scene, carrying flowers, she looked like a faded portrait out of the 1920s. Amidst wild applause, she gazed artfully at the upper tiers; then, after putting her flowers on the altar, she walked slowly to the front of the stage, and kneeling on one knee, bowed to the floor. The ovation lasted for two minutes...
...weeks past, the news of his coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing...