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...held since 1926. Franklin Roosevelt in 1938 vainly tried to beat Tydings on the ground that he was too conservative. McCarthy, by accusing Tydings of sympathy for Communism, succeeded where Roosevelt had failed. The campaign against Tydings included a faked photograph showing Tydings and Communist Earl Browder cheek by jowl. On other occasions, Joe has said: "You have to play rough if you are going to root out this motley crew...
...theatrical as he is efficient, Fuchs spits on his gold-colored, 16-lb. shot and thoughtfully polishes it with a massive paw before he gets poised for his throw. Then, with a negative, jowl-flapping shudder of his head, he crouches slightly on his powerful legs ("they're 50% of my success") and uncoils his frame from his toes to his fingertips. His heave last week was 57 ft. 9± in., 8± in. short of his own latest world record, set in April...
...aisles . . . wheel a bicycle in one door and out another. These observers are equally shocked by the sight of unshaven friars with faces like pirates, begging nuns in the capital of Christendom, gaudy and grubby dolls, tinsel bambinos, baby Virgins and the like in lovely quattrocento churches cheek by jowl with exquisite sculpture; and when I say that I find these bambinos both horrible and funny, even this will probably shock; as if religion were not sometimes so funny that one must laugh at it with...
Smith got elected; Charlie Binaggio swaggered around the state capital at Jefferson City, dropped in casually to see the governor. At the big Kansas City dinner for Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle, Binaggio planted himself right in front of the President of the U.S., sat cheek by jowl with such notables as Attorney General Howard McGrath and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington...
Christmas shoppers along Buenos Aires' swank Calle Florida found store windows featuring snow-sprinkled effigies of Santa Claus cheek by jowl with scanty bathing suits, tropical clothing and camping gear. In Argentina's interior cities of Tucumán, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero, the mercury climbed to 106°. That, announced the Argentine weather man, made it the hottest December on record...