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...hill twelve feet high and which would be spared from the onrushing waters). It is the town's streets, which might jokingly be called its arteries of trade and commerce, its narrow and fetid alleyways which cross and recross without plan or purpose, which cry like a festering sore for the purging waters...
Shipped as a delegate to Chicago, Pollack was sore at the Democratic organization and at Tommy D'Alesandro-so sore that he announced he hadn't decided whether to support Stevenson or Eisenhower. Thrown to Ike, Pollack's 25,000 votes might have meant sure defeat for Stevenson in hard-fought Maryland...
...hate Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats still didn't hate Ike. In 1952, the two-platoon system had come to politics too. Each party had not only picked a candidate but had provided its foes with a living, breathing, campaigning villain. Last week the G.O.P. was so sore at Truman and the Democrats so incensed at Bob Taft that both Ike and Adlai were still good guys to millions on both sides of the political fence...
...lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...Long a sore point in the administration, apathy is disappearing with the "blue-stocking" Radcliffe girl, many felt. At the close of the two-day session, Ann Cook '53, president of the Choral Society, said the response to the conference proved that apathy was fast disappearing from the Annex halls...