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Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a gentle drinking man whose buns beget a 6 ft. 1½in. bunny (TIME...
America is not a land of ease. We have not paused from action to beget Heroic simile and song and frieze; We have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings...
...Sayed had a reputation as an apostle of Allah to maintain. Although his fighting father had killed General ("Chinese") Gordon, King George V had forgiven and knighted the son. Now Sir Sayed determined to break the market, enable his followers to obey the Prophet's injunction: marry and beget sons...
...Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler's Schwarze Korps exhorted able-bodied German boys, who usually go to the front at 18, to marry first and beget children. Reason: "Even if the present war is lost, tomorrow's war can be won by the children of today's soldiers...
...tested out techniques worthy of mention. ... Johnny didn't smell like a rose. Even a bad head cold wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against...