Word: cleaning
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Between the Horns. At those prices, hunting behind the Iron Curtain demands a certain selfdiscipline. In Yugoslavia, it costs $500 just to wound a bear, while a clean miss is priced at $200. Hungarians and Rumanians are nicer about it-$50 to $100 for flubbing a shot...
...dimensions of Lyndon Johnson's victory were staggering. He won every one of the East's 142 electoral votes, becoming the first Democratic President ever to carry Vermont, the first since 1912 to win Maine. He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest. Only in the South did Barry Goldwater score a breakthrough, capturing Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Remarkably, the pattern of Democrat Johnson's victory was strikingly similar to Republican Dwight Eisen- hower...
...states as distant and disparate as Colorado, Texas and Connecticut, the Democratic congressional candidates swept clean. By latest count-subject to last-minute change-they had picked up 16 seats in the Midwest alone, including three in Ohio, two in Indiana and Wisconsin, one each in Illinois, Nebraska and North Dakota. The Democrats won at least six of Iowa's seven seats; many of the victors were young upstarts, notably John Culver, 32, former aide to Teddy Kennedy. The Democratic phalanx marched from Maine, where at least one out of two Democrats triumphed, to Washington, where the state...
...pressure of patronage to improve the quality of government in Massachusetts, if it chooses to make the effort. Senator Kennedy could persuade the President that now, when the Republican Party has discredited itself in New England by the nomination of Barry Goldwater, is the time for the Democrats to clean their own house...
...character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel...