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...Bellies. Heaviest of the burdens was the oldest one-the weight of India's 390,000,000 Moslems and Hindus of many castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure...
...Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness. He is a tremendously able organizer, an articulate speaker, a student of foreign affairs...
Most of Dr. Ellsworth's hotel patients are men. Some are chronic heart or kidney cases, but the majority are drunks. They range from chronic alcoholics with the d.t.s, who have to be nursed back to health over a period of weeks, to women guests with a one-drink hangover. Some of Dr. Ellsworth's drunks are sorrowful, some are noisy and tear up the room, some come to the hotel for regular binges four or five times a year, some are just funny: e.g., one time Dr. Ellsworth, thinking a drunk was out cold, was telephoning...
...guard the home front with the trusted SS had become something more than a foresighted precaution. As the fifth winter of war began to fasten down on Europe, Germany was in chronic retreat. The Allies had invaded Europe and Mussolini had fallen. Close to four million Germans had been lost...
...adroit emphasis and inflection Franklin Roosevelt managed to turn the words of others into words of his own. And he left no doubt that he thought some U.S. newspapers have sunk to dismal depths. Not since the famed "dunce cap" and "chronic liar" press conferences had he delivered so hard a pitch...