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...being booked, was fished out of a drugstore phone booth two blocks away, leaped out of a squad car on the way to the county jail when it stopped at a railroad crossing, lay down on the tracks until three patrolmen got her back in the car, clung to the side of the car at the jail, had to be carried bodily inside by six officers...
...that way. Hence, to promote a viable free world with freedom having the breadth of definition which it rightfully deserves, we must renew our efforts to make that definition a reality at home. A new consensus based on world recruits for this concept who in a different period clung to a laissez-faire aproach...
...consensus, which in general supported the welfare state, had spread across the membership of both political parties. In each party it was opposed by minorities which clung to older concepts of government and economics. In the Democratic party, which had maintained itself in power after winning in 1932 by providing vigorous leadership for the new consensus and asserting the policy positions essential to its objectives, the minority was largely confined to certain sections of the South. Here it was vocal and strong, but beyond the area of civil rights, in which seniority gave it a position of strength...
...dynamic motion even when the major himself was at ease. Alone his glorious mustache would have been enough to command the respect of the stoniest of Mayfair's headwaiters. But added to the mustache were such other facts as the fit of the Savile Row suits, which clung to his lithe frame with the easy perfection of a snakeskin, and the verve with which he followed hounds with the Cornwall Hunt...
...first two months of 1956, G.M. increased its slice of the market to 55%. Chrysler's share in the same two months dropped from 17.1%, its 1955 average, to 15%; Ford's output slid from 28.2% to 25%. American Motors and Studebaker-Packard each clung to 2.5% of total production...