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Egypt and Canada. "Let them see the terror we have made," said spread-eagle Major George Fielding Eliot in the New York Herald Tribune. "Let the atomic fires which we shall loose above Bikini set alight the spiritual fires of a common and deathless purpose which shall burn forever upon the altars of a world at peace...
...know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unseeing eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice, in his extremity, of an open window." The episode ended in the deathless friendship...
...book lovers, their eyes alight with Christmas benefaction, filed into book stores last week and found that one of the most momentous years in history had produced one of the most unstimulating book lists on record...
...MATERIAL-Oliver La Farge- Houghton Mifflin ($3). "Bumwad Inky," mused the Second Form bully, his eye alight with sudden inspiration as he watched his gawky, bespectacled classmate unpacking, "Bumwad Inky in his bumwad suit...
...four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...