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...more just distribution" of wealth. In a land where the church once preached passivity and fatalism, he urged the poor to "do everything legal to assure their families whatever is necessary for life." Afterward, listeners handed him letters asking for help in or der to get running water, electricity, sew age lines and title to the land they live...
...three most important, in California and New Jersey; Carter carried the third big state, Ohio. In all, Kennedy won 53% of the delegates at stake. Yet even as Carter suffered his worst defeats of the campaign, he still picked up 321 delegates, far more than he needed to sew up the nomination...
...time," calls one of the male cadets. This time it's an affectionate nickname, a mark of respect for her record, which brought her a cadet promotion. Like many of the women at West Point, she admits that she likes to cook and sew. (She's receiving a sewing machine for graduation.) She buckles on a curved saber, wraps a purple sash around her waist...
Describing a tour of Europe, she lights upon the Queen of England, "the whitest woman in the world. She makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew, she conjures up a whole line of milliners in the basement of Buckingham Palace, threading needles for their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word...
...strategy worked perfectly as Hackett jumped out to a body length lead. Mack and Gauthier increased the Crimson margin lead, each swimming their best 200s of the year, and Mike Coglin held off a furious finish by 200 champ Andy Saltzman to sew up the victory...