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Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks. The debate had had its high & low points...
...says Dr. Benioff, there was a great burst of earthquakes that lasted three years.* This period produced a tall jog on Dr. Benioff's chart. Since then the jogs have been smaller. Today the earth is having continual, mild earthquake activity. This means in Dr. Benioff's theory that the strain in the crust is being released as fast as it is generated. By the same reasoning, a period of no earthquake activity ought to be followed by a proportionately violent flare...
...from Miche's owner, Mrs. John Payson Adams. She had had a hunch before La Sorpresa. "I don't believe Citation has ever run against a grey horse," she said, "and when Miche comes alongside he will think it is just the lead pony and will just jog along...
...unclean refuse with our foot. What a swarming there is beneath it, what a tumult of busy workers! The Silphae,* with wing cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their...
...with the free & easy stride of the first-sacker on a girls' high-school baseball team (which she once was), approaches the microphone like a polite salesgirl (which she also was) addressing a customer. About half the time, Mindy is not at her best. She still has to jog the echoes of half a dozen better-known singers out of her ears; but in top form, her voice is clear as spring water...