Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...degree and went to work as an assistant to a rising young political amateur named Hubert Humphrey. As buoyant, garrulous Hubert Humphrey bounced up the political ladder from mayor of Minneapolis to U.S. Senator, dogged, serious, quiet Orville Freeman climbed with him: Freeman became Governor in 1955 and straw-bossed the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which turned out the Republicans who had controlled Minnesota for 17 years...
Between mob politics and petty parliamentary factionalism-a dissident wing of Chang's own Democratic Party recently broke off to form a new party-South Korea was still a long way from re-establishing stable government. But along with Chang's new toughness, there was another hopeful straw in the wind. During the April riots against Rhee, thousands of cheering Seoul adults egged the students on. Last week, with rare exceptions, their elders watched the rampaging students in disapproving silence...
...Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes a gay and warm and generous point about life itself: live it while you've got it because you only get it once...
...correcting spinal curvature in people up to the age of 40, Dr. Harrington's technique frees patients from the confines of a cast, permits them to lead normal lives during treatment. Key to Harrington's method is a slender, stainless-steel rod that resembles a soda straw and serves somewhat like a splint. In a complicated, two-hour operation, the curved spine is straightened, then bound into place with one to three rods, which are fastened to the spine with metal hooks. The rods are readily accepted by the body, says Dr. Harrington, and need never be removed...
...sure that reporters' luggage is delivered to their hotel rooms. But he does little to dispel their growing bitterness. Klein is well aware that reporters in both camps are predominantly Democratic (and their publishers predominantly Republican). The ratio is 2 to 1 for Kennedy, according to one informal straw vote aboard the Nixon press plane. But most reporters insist they know how to separate their own convictions from their reporting, and say that Nixon's assistants are too ready to find real or imagined injury. In Springfield, Mo., after Reporter Potter asked what Klein considered a deliberately needling...