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Located in a river funnel, the courts collect all the energy of capricious Boston weather and translate it into wind. For the survival of tennis, some form of windbreak is obviously needed. The clearest solution--trees and bushes--would look most pleasant, but due to the cindery bog soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less...
...With the experts thus thoroughly confounded, the defense was no less merciless with lay testimony, trapping prosecution witnesses (including two nurses) in the bog holes of their own faulty memories. When, at last, the exhausted prosecution rested, Lawrence called only two witnesses to bolster his own case. The frustrated Attorney General was not even given the chance of cross-examining the defendant. Confident that he had the case won, the defense counsel decided not to put his client on the stand...
Behind the formality, observers detected a skillful diplomatic technician, in this respect second only to Molotov. He could not change the U.N. majority against him, but he could and did bog it down in technicalities and delays, until fine hot outrage was largely dissipated and the vote anticlimactic. His own bosses, slow to give him high rating, only last year made him a full member of the Central Committee. Later he accompanied B. & K. on their laughing-boy journey through India and Burma, and was seen on occasion to smile himself...
...vouchsafed a vision of the Virgin, and the populace turns from litigation to religion. Not, however, before the Irish, who stand "on the periphery of chaos," move into dead center and, in the book's most comic turn, infect the Sassenach with their own fey reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild, oblique, subjunctive manner of the natives...
...body, found in a Danish peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years...