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Take, for example, the reformers among New York City 's Democrats. | Take | {
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Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall. | whipped | {
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Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall. | come into | {
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Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall. | changed | {
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Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick? | moved into | {
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Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick? | believe | {
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Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick? | make | {
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Even though headquarters actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe that they can make the new name stick? | stick | {
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Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit. | regarded as | {
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Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit. | have | {
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But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name. | is | {
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But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name. | balks | {
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After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence - the British government that is. | goes back | {
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After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence - the British government that is. | was | {
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After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence - the British government that is. | conspired | {
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After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence - the British government that is. | overthrow | {
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Further, do our reforming friends really believe that the cartoonists will consent to the banishment of the tiger from their zoo? | believe | {
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Further, do our reforming friends really believe that the cartoonists will consent to the banishment of the tiger from their zoo? | consent | {
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They will - when they give up the donkey and the elephant. | give up | {
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Instead of attempting the impossible, why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger 's stripes are not black? | attempting | {
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Instead of attempting the impossible, why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger 's stripes are not black? | prove | {
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Instead of attempting the impossible, why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger 's stripes are not black? | are | {
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That might go over. | go over | {
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The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service. | taken | {
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The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service. | remove | {
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The Faget appointment was preposterous on several grounds. | was | {
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The Kennedy Administration had assured anti-Castro Cubans that it would have nothing to do with associates of Dictator Batista. | assured | {
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The Kennedy Administration had assured anti-Castro Cubans that it would have nothing to do with associates of Dictator Batista. | have | {
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The Kennedy Administration had assured anti-Castro Cubans that it would have nothing to do with associates of Dictator Batista. | do | {
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Using a Batista man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro. | Using | {
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Using a Batista man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro. | screen | {
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Using a Batista man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro. | represented | {
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Using a Batista man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro. | oppose | {
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Moreover, Col. Faget 's information on Cuba was too outdated to be useful in `` screening '' Castro agents ; the Colonel fled to the friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized power. | was | {
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Moreover, Col. Faget 's information on Cuba was too outdated to be useful in `` screening '' Castro agents ; the Colonel fled to the friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized power. | be | {
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Moreover, Col. Faget 's information on Cuba was too outdated to be useful in `` screening '' Castro agents ; the Colonel fled to the friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized power. | fled | {
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Moreover, Col. Faget 's information on Cuba was too outdated to be useful in `` screening '' Castro agents ; the Colonel fled to the friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized power. | seized | {
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And while he had headed Batista 's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists. | headed | {
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And while he had headed Batista 's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists. | disturb | {
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And while he had headed Batista 's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists. | alleged | {
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Responsibility for the Faget appointment rests with Gen. J. M. swing, an Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service. | rests | {
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Gen. Swing has received public attention before this for abuse of some of the prerogatives of his office. | received | {
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His official term expired last summer. | expired | {
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Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get. | say | {
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Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get. | rescued | {
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Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get. | searching | {
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Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get. | get | {
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Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962. | been | {
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Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962. | announced | {
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Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962. | retire | {
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At that point the Administration will have little reason to hang on to Gen. Swing. | have | {
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At that point the Administration will have little reason to hang on to Gen. Swing. | hang on | {
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The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat. | was | {
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The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat. | repeat | {
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As President, Dwight D. Eisenhower often assumed a role aloof from the strife of partisan politics. | assumed | {
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As a former President, however, Mr. Eisenhower abandoned this role to engage in partisan sniping during a New York Republican rally, and generally missed his target. | abandoned | {
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As a former President, however, Mr. Eisenhower abandoned this role to engage in partisan sniping during a New York Republican rally, and generally missed his target. | engage | {
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As a former President, however, Mr. Eisenhower abandoned this role to engage in partisan sniping during a New York Republican rally, and generally missed his target. | missed | {
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Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon. | seized | {
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Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon. | lost | {
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Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon. | attack | {
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Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon. | suggest | {
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Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon. | sending | {
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This was juvenile ridicule. | was | {
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Nowhere did the speaker recognize the serious purpose of the Corps or its welcome reception abroad. | recognize | {
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His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding. | were | {
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His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding. | come | {
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His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding. | lent | {
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The former President blithely ignored recent history in speaking of `` dollarette '' dollars under Kennedy Administration fiscal policies. | ignored | {
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The former President blithely ignored recent history in speaking of `` dollarette '' dollars under Kennedy Administration fiscal policies. | speaking | {
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It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit. | was | {
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It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit. | produced | {
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Finally, Mr. Eisenhower found nothing but confusion in Washington. | found | {
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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too. | recalls | {
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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too. | told | {
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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too. | defended | {
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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too. | added | {
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This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too. | was | {
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The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion has hardly been compounded. | renewed | {
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The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion has hardly been compounded. | compounded | {
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Ex-Presidents, relieved of accountability for policy, sometimes seem to feel free of accountability for their words. | relieved | {
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Ex-Presidents, relieved of accountability for policy, sometimes seem to feel free of accountability for their words. | seem | {
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Ex-Presidents, relieved of accountability for policy, sometimes seem to feel free of accountability for their words. | feel | {
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Some of former President Truman 's off-the-cuff discourses have been in that vein. | been | {
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Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. | deny | {
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Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. | take part | {
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Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. | expect | {
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Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. | remember | {
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Nobody can deny the right of former Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. | treat | {
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This is a matter of respect for the Presidency. | is | {
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Mr. Eisenhower 's New York speech does not encourage respect for that or for his elder statesmanship. | encourage | {
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The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas. | been | {
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Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us. | been | {
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Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us. | was | {
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Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us. | retired | {
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Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us. | struck | {
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But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least. | influenced | {
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But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least. | decided | {
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But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least. | keep | {
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