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Neighborly Dependence. Yet, despite the violence through which they lived, no province in Europe today seems more blessed with tranquil beauty than Flanders. The soft greys and greens of sand dune, marsh and meadow blend imperceptibly with the pale blues of the sky's rim, along an endlessly level horizon. Ornate old cities, which have known and outgrown greatness, nurse their memories amid a neat patchwork of fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which...
...motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...
Even for $750,000, this pagodalike structure cannot be made to blend with its surroundings. Either the old master of our century is losing his touch, or my neighbors have recently taken to the rice paddies...
...music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn off, a good blend with bourbon or Scotch...
...Cabinet voted its mind, Bidault might well have been beaten, but in France it is not customary to take a vote in Cabinet meetings. Instead, Premier Laniel nodded to Bidault. Bidault left the room, telephoned France's representative to sign the formal agreements by which Great Britain will blend some of its military forces with the European Army while retaining full control over their use and disposition (see box}. That took care of Precondition...