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...grow more than enough food to fill American stomachs. Competition with Canada, Australia, and Argentina has made the government unable to trade excess food in foreign markets except at prices well below parity. In business, this pair of events would force migration to other industries. But farmers have tenaciously clung to their homesteads, counting on governmental laws to save them from the law of supply and demand...
...enjoyed marriage at first but then developed frigidity, often after having "too many" children. The larger group of 162 had been frigid all their adult lives. Dr. Robertson found that these were the women who as girls had hated a domineering or drunken father, and had clung to mother. As adults, five-sixths of them were still clutching mother's apron strings. And 23% of them developed gallstones...
...must disagree emphatically with your characterization of the President of Bolivia as a dictator. The late Gualberto Villaroel was not pro-Nazi; in fact, he was one of the few men in all Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object...
...seized hold of the iron bedstead and clung for dear life. He was dragged forth, wearing only his pyjamas . . . His clothing was thrown after him." A Point for Jesuits. After this disaster, Rolfe tried to have himself committed to an insane asylum, then fled to London and buried himself in surly isolation, getting queerer by the minute. He always contended that he could speak cat lan guage, and he proved it by jabbering in the moonlight in such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur...
Horrified and dismayed by the notoriety that clung to Billy even in death, members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone...