Word: tending
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...funds for Chicago's Mayor Kennelly and for Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow...
...from Conservative roots in monarchical Spain, have become blurred. The most frequently mentioned issue nowadays is religious: Liberals are mildly anticlerical (although Colombia is 99.5% Catholic); Conservatives warmly embrace the church and its hierarchy. There is no clean economic cleavage between the parties, but industrialists, labor, white-collar classes tend to be Liberals, while landholders, many farmers and most priests are Conservatives. Liberals, in the last contested election, polled 58% of the vote...
...Bones." On paper, Compromiser Sparkman looks like a good choice in the Democratic effort to patch up a North-South compromise. In fact, the choice of Sparkman has had little effect so far on the party in the South. Dissident Southern leaders, mildly pleased by Stevenson's nomination, tend to be contemptuous of Sparkman. The basic Southern objection to him is clearly expressed by a supporter of Georgia's Herman Talmadge: "Sparkman is as bad a left-winger as the rest, except on the civil rights issue." Says Herman himself: "Sparkman was just a bone tossed...
...Bartholomew, set out to discourage profanity in the 25th Infantry Division by reminding its soldiers that General Washington's order had never been rescinded. Perhaps mindful that it had seldom been obeyed either, he ended up by sanctioning one four-letter word: "A healthy damn," he said, "will tend to let off steam [but] the others . . . are to be detested...
Unlike most fast new jets, the Starfire (over 600 m.p.h.) has straight instead of swept-back wings. Sweepback is meant to minimize the dangerous effects of shock waves at high speed. The same result can be accomplished by making the wings much thinner-a difficult job because thin wings tend to be weak and flexible. Lockheed gets around the obstacle by chewing large parts of the wing-skin, stiffeners, etc.-out of heavy slabs of aluminum...