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That was the sum of his distinctions in 1946, when he decided to run for the Senate. His political qualifications seemed to be nil. His friends thought he must be joking or that he meant the Delaware state senate. He knew only one (retired) politician, had made only one speech in his life (to a Rotary Club). On that occasion, he could not be heard beyond the front row, and he was uneasy and ungrammatical. "It was just something I thought might could be done." he says...
French said: "My lawyer informed me that there is no precedent for a suspended sentence. The chances of one are nil... there is no parole of any sentence lighter than one year and this will not in all likelihood be light...
...after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...
...speech informing the people of Iran that the court is against him. Caught unprepared, Ala could only stutter his remonstrances: but-but really, the Shah, whatever his private misgivings, had publicly backed Mossadegh's every move, and the Queen Mother's influence on politics was almost nil...
...Murder is a pretty stupid affair," Dr. Ford claims. "The chances that a murderer won't drop as much as a flake of dandruff near his victim, nor be seen by any witnesses are nil...