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...Charlestown, the Cattons detect "a faint but undeniable whiff of decay" under the city's genteel tradition." Brierfield, Davis's estate, is said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party...
...religious toleration and enlightenment, or perhaps exactly because of that history, Americans are embarrassed at talking about Jewishness. You can speak of a man in public life as a Catholic, and no one catches his breath. But speak of him as a Jew, and both of you catch a whiff of possible anti-Semitism in the air. The irony of it is that Goldwater's following, which must have a largish proportion of people who regard Jews as foreigners and perhaps even as Communists, are quite ready to swallow his Jewishness and like...
...visitors are warned to get used to the thin air before taking a cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend...
Flying over the Atlantic, Jackie was indeed nearly overcome, had to whiff oxygen to relieve her fatigue. Four first-class seats were arranged to provide a berth so that the First Lady could rest. In Greece Jackie took it easy, her privacy assured by 80 Greek policemen and coast guardsmen who patrolled the land and water approaches to the villa of wealthy Greek Shipper Markos No-mikos overlooking the Saronic Gulf near Athens. During her 1961 visit, Jackie had used the same villa...
...roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...