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Since when is the life of any American . . . worth the shame that has this day befallen a once-free...
...fearing that the rival classes might suffer worse damages than had already befallen their graven image (now minus an arm and a foot due to wear & tear), Amherst officials persuaded her transient keepers to give her up, retired her to the college museum behind three locked doors. There she gathered dust for seven tranquil years, until she was mysteriously beheaded by ill-wishers, promptly reheaded by the late President Stanley King, who tracked down her tortured top. After that, Sabrina was bolted to the floor...
...next war, if it comes, will be the greatest disaster that will have befallen the human race up to that moment. I can think of only one greater disaster: the extension of the Kremlin's power over the whole world. Fortunately the measures required to prevent the one are the same as the measures required to prevent the other; they are those that strengthen the forces on the side of human freedom. It is painful that there is such an inadequate realization of the urgency of the problem ... I wish some supreme orator could rouse all western nations...
...father and a grandfather, John inclines to apologize for his own filial rebellions. His father's "pious admonitions," John confesses, "were met by indifference or even hostility. To this perverse and refractory spirit must be attributed many of my shortcomings and much of the ill-fortune which has befallen me in life. I appear ... to have perpetuated, only in a reverse sense, the principles laid down for my guidance as a child . . . above all, the supreme doctrine of the Value of Money . . . left me unmoved...
...effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year...