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...Fellow-Traveling Rump?" What was the Democratic League? Even a good many Chinese were not sure. Once it had been the middle-party hope of a large number of Chinese liberals. Then the league's right wing (the Young China Party) had withdrawn, and the center (the Social Democrats) had been expelled. Chinese liberals now said that what was left looked like "a fellow-traveling rump...
...sides, at widely scattered points, with widely scattered and diffused resources. Russia could strike where she wished. She was always on the offensive, the U.S. must act constantly on the defensive. Eastern Europe was gone. Russia, in effect, stood on the Elbe River and the Adriatic Sea. The rump of Europe scarcely differed in effectiveness from Europe in the 5th Century, when the Slavs had pushed to the North Sea and the Frankish Kingdom occupied the Low Countries and France...
...Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst into a cheer. They cheered again the next time Harry Walker came to bat. Whatever his play might cost Brooklyn...
First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
...Council feels that it has a peculiar responsibility to see that none of the new provisions become dead letters. While it is rather late in the term for such a move, the removal is justified because both men affected by the novel proceeding were elected in last February's "rump" election and the passage of time was required for them to demonstrate their lack of interest in Council work. In an ordinary year the effect of the new constitutional provision would be to eject members who chronically neglect to attend meetings in November or December...