Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pigs. Things at home were fine. "You know, the Nicaraguan has a tremendous heart. If you do something for him, you can lead him around by the nose. If I tell one of these that I'll give him a pig if he'll fatten ten pigs for me, I'll come back and find one pig fat and the rest skinny. So I tell these guys that I'll give 'em a pig, but don't tell them which one. Then all the pigs...
...left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
...organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct struggles around the schools in a truly Bolshevik manner...
...miles up, there is still some air. But it does not behave as a normal gas. Its scattered molecules act more like satellites of the earth, moving on orbits in the earth's gravitational field. Some are shooting up, others curving back. Some may be moving around the earth like infinitesimal moons. A few may escape from the earth entirely. For brief minutes, the WAC Corporal joined this throng of molecular wanderers...
...Most of the year it flows sluggishly far below its banks. But between July and October, a great gush of muddy water floods the narrow, fertile valley. For the ancient Egyptians, who did not demand too much of their sacred river, the flood was fine. They built mud dikes around the fields, and caught the flood water in shallow basins. The silt settled to the bottom, keeping the soil fertile, millennium after millennium. When the water. was gone, the peasants planted their crops, often without plowing or other preparation, in the wet soil...