Word: rucking
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...polls the voters had a Hobson's choice. Against Brooks stood only pudgy, uninspiring State Treasurer Warren Wright, who was not only undistinguished but indistinguishable in the Illinois political ruck. Brooks had the machine support of Illinois regulars, and the daily gushing support of the Tribune, which had tried to make him seem a hero second only to General MacArthur...
...merit in radio drama, to Sandra Michael's Against the Storm (TIME, Nov. 10), which emerged from the ruck of soap operas to prove that pap and pandering are not requisites in that field; and to Norman Corwin's eloquent Bill of Rights anniversary program (TIME...
...front now was indomitable Mauri Rose, who had replaced Floyd Davis at the wheel of the Noc-Out Special, also owned by Lou Moore. Replacing Davis at 177 miles, Rose had pushed the American-made Noc-Out from the ruck to the front of the parade, was a full lap ahead at the finish line. Time: 4 hr., 20 min., 36.24 sec.-for an average speed of 115.117 m.p.h. Of 31 starters, twelve finished...
...this point Curwen's eight clicked and pulled out of the ruck to take a narrow lead. Buck Anderson and Wilson were bow and bow just behind Wagner until a reverse crab, caught near the Mass. Avenue Bridge, stopped the Anderson craft dead in its tracks...
...Clapper is a middle-sized man with wise eyes, stooped shoulders, and a burning conviction that journalism is the most important profession in the world. In themselves, these attributes would not make him unique. The quality that long ago lifted Scripps-Howard's Clapper out of the ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside an afternoon...