Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles. His 1947 Cadillac is owned by two friends who do all the repair work, get 60% of the car's winnings. At Soldier Field one night last week, before a crowd of 31,065 (a 1950 record), Rathman put on his standard performance of winning a good portion of the nightly $1,500 purse...
Back aboard the Mansfield a small portion of brandy was passed to each dripping man. "It wasn't bad after we got ashore," a lanky sailor said slowly. "It was just the long pull. Standing by, waiting to go in is always the worst...
...Chavez brothers-Candidate David and U.S. Senator Dennis-this meant the failure of an elaborate hope for a Chavez dynasty in New Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
Many commentators believe that if the Justice Department wins these cases, it will be able to prosecute successfully any single firms or groups of a few firms which do a substantial portion of the business in their industries. Theses commentators also believe that the courts are coming more and more to hold that any domination of an industry by one or a few firms, even if no overt collusion among them can be shown, is a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust...
There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...