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...phrased as this is, in Daley's inimitable style (his most famous malaprop occured during the 1968 Democratic primary, at which Chicago police forcefully attacked student demonstrators, when he said, "The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder."), this is not a quaint piece of folksy, Midwestern wisdom; this is the heartbeat of politics...
Always a numbers man, Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...
...littered with "dead soldiers." Harry Truman had just arrived for a bourbon or two at the "Board of Education," Speaker Sam Rayburn's daily happy hour, when he was summoned to power. Anyone who believes a fellow did not get tiddly now and then in Mr. Sam's quaint quarters lives in fantasy...
...past week, one of Harvard's great myths has finally been dismissed. Because of recent events at Mather House, the quaint vision of Harvard as an ideal, tolerant, accepting community has been erased...
...always wanted to go to Switzerland. Ever since I saw The Sound of Music I have dreamed of the Alps, the quaint little villages, the blue sky and the mountains. But I never had the chance...