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...morning last week, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington made a polite, lojjg-distance telephone call to Independence, Mo. His strategy to win the Democratic presidential nomination-to play a waiting game while his more eager rivals bled each other white in the state primary elections-was not working out quite according to plan. Jack Kennedy was bulldozing his way across Wisconsin, and Symington's top aides and impatient partisans were urging him to declare himself before it is too late. In Independence, Harry Truman listened attentively to Symington's new plans, then gave his seasoned opinion...
Still most governments, as Parkinson says, are too blockheaded to learn it. The power to tax creates the illusion of limitless income, and nations blissfully spend themselves into bankruptcy. France's Ancien Regime bled its life away in red ink before a single head fell under the guillotine...
...course, that she had shot his father dead in that same room not six months before. Did that alter his feelings? It did not. At scene's end, the happy couple sprawled in warm embrace while the young lady mused: "Is this the same divan where your father bled to death...
During the Depression, management bled labor white until labor had no other choice than to organize against the arrogant bosses. Gradually during the 1950s, many union leaders are becoming just as arrogant as their bosses used...
...Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term diet of irradiated foods had shown some alarming symptoms. Rats developed abnormal eyes, or bled, or died before their time. Bitches bore smaller-than-normal litters. Mice developed enlarged left auricles in their hearts, which interfered with their breathing and sometimes burst...