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...with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...inner antagonist snorted. "Against Cornell, Army, Princeton, etc., and etc., you are going to have a pretty cheerless afternoon waving the dear old flag. How much better to view the game as an exhibition of magnificent skills, in a setting of glorious pageantry. A change of attitude will do wonders for your stomach lining...
...crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head on his hand...
...unpleasant odor. How this works is uncertain, but odor engineers have found many "odor pairs," i.e., smells that cancel each other. The smell of cedarwood, for instance, cancels the smell of rubber. Many offensive-smelling commodities are marketed at present with their natural odors neutralized by an odor antagonist...
...wiser to say: "You get tough, we'll get tough. So let's be friends." War breaks out when one antagonist is sure the other is weaker. A sure way to see Peace break out therefore is to remain strong and healthy, leaving no opportunity for aggression. O. de Messieres...