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...Treatment. The girls get special treatment in every move they make. They take the Sorbonne's famed French civilization course, but Madame Vaudable's girls do not have to claw for seats with the 2,000 ordinary students who also take the course; the girls are taught in a special room in a special private session given by the course's regular lecturers. When the girls go to the Louvre or Versailles, they are guided by a curator. They are invited to see the famed family art collections of Baron Edouard de Roth schild and Greek Shipowner...
...Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver." Only a wantwit or a clodpate can fail to get some notion of Johnson's character in his definition of a dedication as "a servile address to a patron," or a pension as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized. Today no one calls a cow pasture a "vaccary," and infants are weaned, not "ablactated...
...from the Communist world is "a fog of prejudice" that can be dissipated by compromise. This is to ignore entirely that the character of the West has been molded by belief in the rule of law, and the character of Communism has been shaped by belief in the jungle claw...
Gallons of clam chowder preceded the annual lobster luncheon during which an estimated 1500 red fish went their way. The handy bibs served their purpose especially well for those who decided that one good twist of the wrist was just as good as any manufactured claw-cracker. Leaving the mounds of shells behind after ice cream and coffee, '37 emerged from its "lobster" tent and once again looked to the sky, hoping for at least one glimpse of pure...
Loudspeakers carried the countdown across the claw-shaped coral atoll to scientists huddled in and around instrument-filled trenches. Radio carried it to some 40 ships and 100 aircraft of Joint Task Force 8 deployed over 6,000,000 sq. mi. of the Pacific. One of those aircraft, an Air Force B-52, sped at high altitude toward the island. In the operations center, Dominic's scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall...