Word: ebb
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Illinois: Chicago's Cook County cradles half the state's votes, and Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine is purring at peak efficiency. Downstate, the Republican tide is at low ebb. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, stuck with a scandal-seared administration, split the party by insisting on running for a third term. Traditionally Republican newspapers in Peoria, Moline, Pekin and Rockford have endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor, Otto Kerner. Republicans say their polls put Nixon ahead 54-46 and Bobby Kennedy groans, "We're behind." But Democrats may yet take Illinois...
...love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity of dance, which would remove the distinction between aria and recitative." As a result, Ondine offered few pyrotechnics, gained its effects instead through sinuous mass movements in which the undulation of arm and body suggested forests of sea plants...
Militarily, the F.L.N. rebels were at a low ebb. F.L.N. terrorism, which as late as 1957 killed scores of Algerian civilians every week, is now confined to occasional and increasingly infrequent bombings. Some 20,000 well-equipped F.L.N. fighters stationed in Tunisia still keep 35,000 French troops tied up along the electrified Morice Line, but rebel breakthrough attempts are costly and seldom successful. Inside Algeria, rebel units that in early 1958 were big enough to fight pitched battles with crack French outfits are now reduced to 30 or 40 men apiece, and religiously flee all contact with French troops...
...Alaska, Fiji and Tahiti, the waves became nothing more than wildly fluctuating tides. At Pago Pago they carried three houses into the bay; in New Zealand, sheep dogs chained to kennels were swept out to sea and drowned, while the waves' great ebb eerily exposed the wreck of a British frigate sunk in 1840 off Auckland...
Implicit in De Gaulle's tribute to the British version of parliamentarianism was his longstanding contempt for the system as it is practiced in France. But ironically, in the midst of his triumphal visit to Britain, his scorn had brought his popularity at home to its lowest ebb since he took power...