Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, the temptations to play this state's peculiar political games are strong, but the test of a candidate's value comes in how well he emerges from the pork-barrel pulls. Furcolo, identified with patronage of former Governor Paul Dever, is clearly not the intellectual equal of Christian Herter or John F. Kennedy. But on the basis of his superiority over his Republican opponent--Furcolo draws our qualified endorsement for the Governorship...
...sportier style with a flashy, V-shaped grille, sweeping tailfins and a lower top that cuts overall height 2 in., to 60 in. Biggest engineering change: a new V-8 engine for the Hudson Hornet, which turns up 255 h.p., 35 h.p. more than last year, with a four-barrel carburetor and dual exhausts as standard equipment...
...anyone do better?" To this, Art Langlie, the Eisenhower Republican replies: "The people are entitled to make a decision and determine whether they want the facts honestly on a national level or are going to have a continuance of the idea that the federal Treasury is a pork barrel and everyone can reach in and get whatever he can regardless of the welfare of the country...
...learned the breast stroke there in mid-eigteenth century, it has remained France's most fashionable resort as a result of diligent handling by 42-year-old François André, France's biggest hotel operator. In addition to owning Deauville lock, stock and wine barrel, André owns the casinos, two hotels at Cannes and two hotels at La Baule as well as the biggest hotel at Le Touquet...
...mind." With the help of a bottle of raw hooch, he darn near does. Then, to the astonishment of everyone, he blurts: "I'm the fastest gun alive!" and promptly sets out to prove it by digging his six-shooter out of an old barrel and potting two silver dollars in midair...