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...course, this was more like featherbedding than filibustering. Dirksen read newspaper editorials, won permission to have sacks of anti-repeal mail brought into the chamber, told Dirksenesque jokes to his colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied, 'S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t.' The teacher said, 'What does that mean?' ; Johnny answered, 'Without ginger...
...replied as gently as we could, "We can spell sir. We're sorry you feel that way." He turned contemptuously on his heel, and we crossed our street sadly...
Case tries to spell out, in clear and simple language, the equally simple but far less clear ideology which underpins concrete SDS projects. The ideology, which he calls "democracy," seems to differ little in temper or substance from the "direct democracy" of the socialist left-wing in Europe at the beginning of this century. These men wanted "democracy from below" in the factories; SDS wants it in the slums. They wanted a sense of community in the factories; SDS wants that in the slums. And, like the pre-World War I radicals, SDS feels little need to develop a logically...
...sued Father Divine to recover a $3,937 contribution, and a New York court found in her favor. In a moment of godly wrath, he threatened to "evaporate for 1,900 years" but instead moved to Philadelphia. He never forgave New York. Later, in the midst of a dry spell in 1950, he prophesied: "I will dry up your rivers and I will dry up your streams. This water shortage in New York City has been just a slight sketch and reflection of what I will do!" He lived to see his words come true with the drought...
Subbookkeeper is the only English word that contains four successive pairs of letters. Triennially is one of the very few English words in which the odd and the even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal. The longest English word that can be typed in the top letter line of a typewriter is-typewriter? The longest English word without an e in it is floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating things as worthless...