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...himself appeared taken aback by the stir. When a reporter said, "My editor wants to know if Senator Barry Goldwater fits your specifications," he replied enigmatically, "Let your editor try to fit that shoe to that foot...
...this sudden loss of interest in U.S. wheat? For one thing, Moscow was taken aback by the long delays in concluding the deal, by last year's acrimonious debate in the U.S. Senate over credit terms, and by the recent nine-day boycott of wheat shipments by U.S. longshoremen to ensure that 50% of the grain would move in U.S. bottoms. But the chief reason appears to be that Moscow has high hopes for a successful wheat crop this year, simply does not need any more wheat for the time being...
...taken aback by your opinion that "as long as a student adheres to certain necessary rules of order, his moral code is his own business." If I hear you aright, you are saying, as long as a man strictly obeys the law his attitude and moral values are his own affair and of no concern to others. I suppose you are aware that this principle, extended into adult behavior, would destroy the basic of civilized and professional life, which is, of course, based mainly on moral principle and not just upon regard for the law. We are dealing here with...
...behind two games to one. This was quite all right with the crowd of 5,000 nonwhites, which inside its segregated enclosure felt no sympathy for the locals. With the visitors ahead in this final match, the nonwhites cheered so loudly that the puzzled Australian players were taken aback...
...river gunboat, taken to a government airfield and flown to Rangoon, where he promptly demanded 1) a nationwide ceasefire, 2) withdrawal of Burmese troops from vital Red Flag areas, and 3) a meeting of all political factions-legal and illegal-to form a new government. Taken aback by these demands, Ne Win denounced Thakin Soe as "insincere" and gave him seven days' immunity to get back to the safety of his jungle hideouts...