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...Will Not Kill You." When he disappeared. Dean was exhausted and dazed. In the darkness he fell down an embankment, was knocked unconscious. Hours later, he came to with a nasty gash on his left temple, a fractured shoulder. He limped into a clump of bushes and hid until nightfall. After two days of playing hound & hare with North Korean patrols. Dean came on a fellow American, Lieut. Stanley E. Tabor...
...spectacle of well-known figures sitting amid a clump of microphones and ripping at one another's loyalty has become so common that few people stop to ask why. All that is necessary to justify plunging the nation into turmoil seems to be a ritualistic "the-people-have-a-right-to-know." This means, presumably, that the revelation about to be brought forth is such that the people could not decide issues intelligently without...
...with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze, and the guests skated till dawn...
...habits. For them it is an all-weather, year-round pastime which calls for old clothes, field glasses and an abundant knowledge of bird lore. They know, for instance, that a robin sings, not because he is happy, but because he has just staked out a claim to a clump of trees or a bride, and his song is a chirp-on-shoulder challenge to the rest of the robin community...
...spectators - Mrs. Endrich among them-watched breathlessly for the precise change in course that would send the bobsled whipping down the sheer far side of the turn. The change was never made. The sled shot up and over the rim of the curve, and crashed heavily into a clump of firs...