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...PRESIDENT, that Dixon-Yates contract already has caused your administration a lot of trouble and embarrassment. But you ain't seen nothin' yet unless you step in and straighten out the mess. You've got coming up a rambunctious Democratic Congress, and those guys are preparing to paw over that contract from hell to breakfast, make every political advantage of it and torment your next two years in the White House. Although many of the things [the Democrats] said about Dixon-Yates were untrue, enough was true to give the deal an unpleasant odor the public does...
...ain't much of a fielder, and I got a pretty lousy arm, but I sure love to whack at that ball. -James Lamar Rhodes
...openheartedness is attested to on every side. Taken as a whole, his life suggests strongly that the heart of the matter was expressed in a crudely chalked sign that he once nailed up in his flat. It read: "You Ain't Livin' If You Don't Know...
...more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection day, the colonel almost jumps out of his uniform when Will jerks the wire he has rigged up and a long line of latrine seats comes clattering to attention. Soon Will...
...days they could do anything. They made up plays to suit their fancy. Against Army in 1912, Jim Thorpe, the unstoppable Sac and Fox, scored 27 points* all by himself. Once, back in kick formation, he laughingly told the referee: "They think I'm gonna kick, but I ain't." He didn't; he charged 80 yards for a touchdown...