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With snail-like caution, England resumed batting. The bowled balls bounced crazily off the now-frayed turf. In the early afternoon, some 25,000 tautly silent fans watched the Aussies claim another wicket-their last. At 2:53 p.m., England's Denis Compton swatted the winning...
...line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned against the king in whose army he had served, became the driving force in the greatest change of his day, and the true parent of a nation that has changed and changed, and yet has veered...
...make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown (i.e., lacked enemies) made him an acceptable Premier. Nobody questioned him hard. The Assembly cheered him, voted him into power...
...creative daring in social relations' said Dr. Ferre. "They call for setting the world right side up . . . These days call for freedom to think radically, to speak radically, to work radically, to go to the root of our troubles with the daring wisdom of Christian love and tender caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make...
Navarre's plans were well received by French Union soldiers, who have become discouraged by continuous caution. Said a delighted staff officer: "One must not forget that his weapon is cavalry. And in cavalry, one attacks...