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...succeeding months, as Harry Truman popped in & out of the state clapping Em Allison encouragingly on the back, the Democratic Party bucked and groaned like a plow that had hit a patch of Ozark hardscrabble. Most Democrats thought that Thomas C. Hennings Jr., a hearty St. Louis attorney who had earned a substantial reputation as a U.S. Congressman in the '30s, would make a better candidate and many of them were committed...
...made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably get all-out U.S.-U.N. help...
House spiders, whose implacable enemy is the housewife, make thick, haphazard webs which Author Crompton regards as a mess. This spider spins only at night, but works indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...
...pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face the dark patch against the distant hills which marked the valley that one day would be their home," straight-shootin' Line calls the bluff of just about every shifty-eyed little skunk in South Pass...
...result of this patch-quilt cushion for old age is that some workers are not covered at all, while some will enjoy as many as three or four pensions. The big reason a worker has to lean on other plans in addition to Social Security is that after 15 years, Social Security benefits are still too small to give security...