Word: clout
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...Clout in Chicago...
...rowdy rhythm and its imperishable lustiness. Chicago can no more do without its bawdy peep shows or its cackling Paddy Baulers than it can do without its Fields, its Swifts-and its Dick Daleys. In its own broad-shouldered way, in its anatomy and in the art of its clout, in its indestructible zest for life, Chicago is a man among cities...
...Giants, putting him in the select company of such baseball tycoons as Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, and Ted Williams. In the 1962 season, Mays, 31, led both leagues in home runs with 49, batted in 141 runs. He hit .304 for the year, and it was his home run clout in the last regular-season game against the Houston Colts that sent the Giants into a playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then into the World Series. Al ready the highest-paid active player in baseball (the aging Musial now gets an estimated $70,000), Centerfielder Mays...
...Chicago's Richard Joseph Daley, 59, is not only mayor but absolute boss of the state Democratic machine and a formidable political manipulator with considerable "clout" on the national scene. Almost the last of the oldtime big-city bosses, he is a capable, Buddha-like civic leader who has used his political power to make Chicago one of the best-run cities in the U.S. He still lives in the humble back-of-the-yards district where he was born, works late into the night at his office, and was embarrassed last week to learn that he had been...
...factly that "Elsa walked over to me and knocked me over in a friendly way, but it was very obvious that she was expressing annoyance at finding us so close." The author's serenity at such moments is so complete that it is hard to remember that the clout came from one of the world's deadliest beasts, made even more dangerous by motherhood...