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Usage examples of tammany.

When they were stopped by a traffic light on Broadway, Tammany roused himself and looked at Carver.

Later Tammany crawled back to the planks, his eyes veering swiftly to Carver and the girl.

Miller lowered her to the boat, and then he and Tammany helped Carver forwards, lifted him in after her.

On a raised space before the cabin Tammany stood at the wheel, his back to them.

He thought things out smart all through but he slipped on that and he was afraid to put Miller in the boat with us because he had only one gun, and he figured if the two of us rushed him and Tammany one of us might get to him.

In many cases money was taken from the city treasury, and used to purchase votes for the Ring or Tammany Hall ticket.

New York that the Tammany ticket could always command a majority in the city sufficient to neutralize any hostile vote in the rest of the State.

So the glare had no place to lock, and thus deprived Tammany of fuel for his ire.

Jim Fisk and Boss Tweed and politicians connected to the Tammany Hall machine.

So he and the Tammany Hall machine were probably behind setting Charles up.

He had been seventeen years in New York, and now a talk of Tammany and its chances in the next election, of pulls and deals, of bosses and heelers, grew up between the civic step-brothers, and joined them is a common interest.

All of them go in to down Tammany and take its place, but they seldom last more than a year or two, while Tammany's like the everlastin' rocks, the eternal hills and the blockades on the "L" road-it goes on forever.

East and West Campuses, he reminded me before I could remind him, were ideologically irreconcilable -- thus the conservative insistence that negotiation between them must be fruitless -- yet the record showed, to his satisfaction at least, that constant negotiation backed by flexible strength and firm leadership had brought New Tammany and Nikolay Colleges closer together in fact, if not in theory.

But I gimped beside him (most of the others were huddled in conferences against the arrival of Classmate X) and insisted he agree that the competition for supremacy between East and West Campuses was essentially a selfish competition, in which New Tammany and Nikolay Colleges each were guilty of seeking advantage over the other in every sphere and extending their hegemonies in the name of self-defense.

Well, in the municipal campaign of 1897, that young man, chockful of patriotism, worked day and night for the Tammany ticket.