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...rangy six-footer, Chance has a sinking fastball, a roundhouse country curve, and a curious quirk in his pitching motion: he turns his back on the batter during his windup. "Never take your eyes off home plate" is a cardinal rule of pitching, but Chance shrugs: "It don't make too much difference if I look at the plate or not, 'cause I don't see too well outa my left eye anyhow." Maybe not, but it makes a big difference to the hitters. "They don't know whether he's going...
Informed analysts agreed that the Senator's mind, by a curious quirk of evolution, had reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...
Tetracycline is one of the most familiar and widely used antibiotics for the cure of infections. It has no effect against cancer. But now it seems that by a peculiar quirk, tetracycline may become one of the diagnostician's sharpest tools for cancer detection. And early detection is half the battle in curing many forms of the disease...
...said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...
...looks as gay as a country club. The round pavilion with glass walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...