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...workers dug deeper, they began the first thorough housecleaning that the rooms had had in nearly 20 centuries. Bucket after bucket of earth was lifted out of the first room, and Carettoni spotted faint patterns on the inner plaster walls-well-preserved frescoes of the long-gone Augustan period...
...charm of ^-dropping has its limits, but Ruark rambles entertainingly about hunting, about shipping out on a rust-bucket freighter, and about the Old Man's tactful peace overtures to a Boy who has run away and who wishes his pride allowed him to run home again. It may occur to the reader that what the author has preserved is not merely leaf pressings of his own boyhood. The time has passed already, for instance, when most boys in the U.S. dreamed for three months a year of the opening of quail season. For that matter, the time...
...members, and in most cases it would not involve any unduly large expense for the host government. West African government were to pay the salaries of a hundred secondary-school teachers, for example, the total cost would to something like $300,000 a year, surely a drop in the bucket as budgets, even in Africa, are going these days. The United States would quite properly assume the cost of selection, transportation, and all expenses which would not be incurred by host government in hiring teachers from its own nationals...
Things came to a head at a meeting of satellite leaders in Moscow last winter. Hoxha called Khrushchev a "revisionist," one of the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon, since it means not going by the book. An enraged Khrushchev shouted back: "Comrade Hoxha, you have poured a bucket of dung on me, and you will have to wash...
...stepped up production to 114,276 cars, the best of the year, though 21% below last year's fast pace. To keep up with the rising sales of compacts, automakers devoted 35% of car production to them-the highest percentage yet. Two new cars joined Detroit's bucket-seat brigade of compacts: Oldsmobile's F85 Cutlass and American Motors' Custom 400 Rambler American. The II compacts now are available in 97 models...