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...Byplay...
That afternoon the M.P.s re-elected their Speaker, Colonel Clifton Brown. He sat quietly on his bench awaiting the traditional byplay. Without a word, the Clerk of the House signaled to Laborite David Kirkwood. In a warmhearted speech, Socialist Kirkwood proposed Tory Brown as Speaker...
...question was how West Germany should meet British devaluation; what mattered was the damage done in the search for an answer. Here is a play-byplay account of what happened...
Dissected Love Affair. Professor Tinbergen observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...
...state legislature which can give hours to personal byplay on trivial issues ought to be able to spend a few days earnestly deliberating a potentially critical change in the country's political structure. And organizations in this state which become rightfully indignant on relatively minor subjects before the legislature ought to think twice about the consequences of this amendment before shrugging it off as too trivial for their concerted opposition...