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...first moment of truth, when the smiles, chatter, drinking and dressing of the previous bouts begins to pay off, when the dazzling exterior really comes into its own. Cuts are made, but everyone is given his second chance, for one evening all those who have been dropped may start afresh at a new fraternity...
...compounds, and radioactive strontium behaves chemically like calcium. Deer ingest strontium with their forage. In slowly maturing humans, only a small part of the skeleton is built each year, and therefore human bone shows an averaging of strontium over many years. But a deer's antlers are grown afresh each year, concentrating in a handy package a calcium-strontium mixture that neatly records the prevalence of strontium for that year alone...
...railroad officials that, somewhere down the line at a station she could not remember, she had stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter...
Author de Cespedes attacks neither motherhood nor the status of the housewife; she only asks that Mamma or Mom stand on her dignity and true worth, and above all, that she reject the martyr pose. The Secret expresses poignantly the mood of wanting "to start living afresh" and the discovery that it is too late. One day Valeria has an impulse to telephone her boss from home and say, "Let's go out." But " 'I'm mad.' I murmured, shaking my head. 'Quite mad,' I repeated, forming his number in the air, without dialing...
...Starting afresh in his pursuit of shenanigans in labor and management, Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his investigating committee last week lifted the lid on a loaded garbage can. The finding: the $50 million-plus refuse-hauling industry in New York City and nearby Long Island and Westchester County is in the hands of grubby crooks, notably a half-pint (5 ft. 1 in., 122 Ibs.) ex-fruit-peddler named Vincent James Squillante...