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...Yorkers alarmed by reports over the weekend that a plague of alien snails had descended upon the Central Park lake, were reassured yesterday by William J. Clench, curator of mollusks, who identified the species as harmless and 100 percent American...
...They've probably been in the lake for thousands of years." Clench said, "but nobody ever worried about them before...
...doesn't take any earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy with Thermopylaean courage, George found stirring words to lead them (before he had to flee the country): "All together, men, women, children of Hellas, rise up, clench your fists, stand at my side to defend the country . . . soldiers in the vanguard of that freedom which has sprung from the sacred bones of the Greeks. Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul...
...Clench-jawed Lord Vansittart left his post as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office in 1941, the better to press his belief that salvation lies in taming the Teuton. Last week he reduced his formula to twelve points, published them in the New York Times Magazine...