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...began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative views comforting. The rank-and-file voters liked his lavish spending for public works (with no taint of corruption). And after the Supreme Court decisions, even Atlanta moderates found Herman's segregation policies less offensive. So when Herman, in January 1955, turned over the governor's office to hand-picked Marvin Griffin, Senator George and his friends knew that at last a Talmadge...
...University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...
...only thing wrong with the food at Harvard that there are a few unfortunates who have to eat it," Franklin Roosevelt told a potential undergraduate in 1920. This complaint, made long before the House system had given the dining halls their present taint, unfortunately still holds today. Not even Adams House is recommended by Duncan Hines...
...fact, intervention by the United States alone might well be more acceptable to the Middle East, which associates France with Algeria and Britain with the Suez. If forced to act alone, Eisenhower assures the United States a greater freedom--both to act quickly and with less of a taint of colonialism...
Glaser rushed from office to office of party leaders to learn who had been changing the managing editor's copy. He was finally introduced to "Mr. Edwards, the representative from Moscow," who explained that the new version was necessary to assure readers that Glaser did not bear the taint of a capitalist paper and was really "tried and true." Glaser never gave in to the pressure to write such a series, but he saw a lot more of Mr. Edwards...