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...there the similarity ends. A medium-sized colt with a shining dark bay coat, Never Bend likes to grab an early lead and fight off challengers. Candy Spots is a strapping chestnut with curious black and white spots on his rump, who prefers to dwell in the pack, then turn on a withering burst of speed in the stretch. And the horses could hardly have more contrasting jockeys. Never Bend's regular rider is fiery Panamanian Manuel Ycaza, 25, whose terrible-tempered tactics earn him almost as much time on suspension as in the saddle. Candy Spots...
Speaking for the British people, Stuart-Robinson said that "the majority do not want total disappearance of national sovereignty." He said that the most important point lay in the decision to seek continental ties, and not in "just grafting Great Britain onto the rump of Europe...
...long after the Civil War, two intolerable improprieties came to the notice of U.S. Victorians. One was a minor mountain in north-central Vermont, which a less delicate age had named Camel's Rump. The other was a literary movement, which called itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves...
Weedy Neurosis. The source of Howells' crippling tameness is more complex than his frequently cited refusal to write about sex (no American could write about sex in those days of rump-hump squeam-ishness). Howells simply could not write, and preferred not to think, about the darker sides of human nature. Much as he admired Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the realities they wrote of were to him merely Russian realities; it would be impossible to write a Russian novel in the U.S., he wrote, because here life took on a more "smiling aspect." Biographer Edwin H. Cady presents evidence that...
Last Weapon. The abortive rump session ended Argentina's congressional life for the foreseeable future. Without the right to meet, the Deputies are powerless, and the nation's political parties are equally impotent without the right to assemble. But labor still has the right to strike, and is wielding the weapon. Last week, demanding two months' back pay owed them by the nearly broke government, railroad workers staged a 24-hour walkout. Argentina's General Confederation of Labor has called a 24-hour general strike for this week and another two-day walkout June...