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Along which moves the ebb and flow...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...
...picture, and the late meticulous planner, General Douglas Mac-Arthur, who risked his reputation in carrying out the landing, would be pained indeed at your arbitrary postponement of the event. September 15, 1950, was the only date within months when the enormous tides at Inchon, some 36 feet from ebb to flood, crested sufficiently to permit the landing to be made-successfully, as this former Marine can gratefully attest from firsthand experience...
Philip Champagne can make points with lights. They flood and ebb with the play's emotions. The costumes, which are contemporary and therefore risk drawing blatant parallels between politics Then and Now, are just suggestive enough. The make-up is masklike, an old cliche of American Greek tragedy--but the Keane eyes and chalk faces are so stark, the scars and gore so real, that this makeup has nothing to do with cliche...
Their confidence was at its lowest ebb at the beginning of this term: the memory of the breakfast subsidy fiasco still rankled. Starting early in February, two months before housing decisions were to be made, girls began having appointments with Mrs. Frederick Bolman, the dean of residence, to ask about apartment living. Many were opposed to a lottery system, which had been used for this year's seniors. They were put off by Mrs. Bolman, who told them that the procedure had not been set up because the administration was busy with admissions meetings for the class...