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Better still, select verbs that have both a literal and a figurative meaning, as for example...
...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...
Publisher Crum was still coy about his backers. Marshall Field, he explained, will keep only a 25% interest in the Star. Together, Crum & Barnes will hold 33 ⅓%. In the next fortnight they will select, from offers of $3,000,000 in working capital, the $1,500,000 they want...
Voznesensky's book was more than mere fear mongering. It was also a statistical statement of the Soviet war potential. From it, after months of painstaking analysis, the U.S. House Select Committee on Foreign Aid (Herter Committee) last week drew some important conclusions. The highlights...