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...many of my countrymen, blush scarlet with shame at the love affair now going on in the East between Mr. Attlee and the Chinese Communists. While we in Britain deplore the extremes of McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea...
...think that he is also a simple man. And goodness and simplicity are a couple of tough customers ... In this country, battered and squeezed as no victorious nation has ever been before and disillusioned almost beyond endurance, he has been welcomed with an exuberance that almost makes us blush behind our precious Anglo-Saxon reserve. I never thought that friendliness had such a sharp cutting edge. I never thought that simplicity could cudgel us so damned hard. We live and learn...
...minutes from downtown Houston, in the vast, $60 million Texas Medical Center still abuilding, the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute Stands out in a blush of pink marble. Just opened, it has 310 beds and everything that money can buy. But last week, only 98 beds were occupied and no more of the many waiting patients could be admitted. The main reason: shortage of nurses, which even a Texas oilman's millions cannot remedy. The hospital has 48 registered nurses and 66 aides; it needs more than twice as many, and where they will come from, nobody...
When Shirley was given the Academy Award as the best film actress of the year, there was scarcely a dissenting voice. She went to Manhattan's International Theater wearing a blush-pink Valentina dress, specially cut so there would be no danger of her tripping on the steps to the stage. With millions watching on television, Shirley tripped anyway. But she managed to make it look likably human...
When a turn-of-the-century caballero inclined toward a passing beauty and murmured a loping compliment like this, the girl could walk away in disdain but could hardly fail to blush with pleasure. Indeed, the word for this kind of verbal pass, piropo, is said to come from the Greek pyropos, meaning burning face. Fashioning the piropo used to be one of the pleasantest professions of Latin America, and nowhere was it practiced more artistically than in Maracaibo, a city rich with oil and romance. A proper piropo, while flowery and fresh, was never offensive...