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...trousers. "O.K., I guess," he murmured and again took a position behind a rear fender, this time attached to a battered pre-war Ford. Throwing his weight behind the car as the driver gunned the motor, Vag was immediately enveloped in a cloud of oily black exhaust. But he clung valiantly to his post and the car edged slowly into the middle of the street. Long after the others had zoomed off to Wellesley, Vag was still standing in the empty parking space, coughing carbon monoxide and shaking another load of snow off his pants...
...Enduring Honor. In postwar Britain, it was George's constitutional duty to approve legislation that created the welfare state and wrested from the crown its brightest single jewel, the Indian Empire. Yet in drab, austere, Socialist Britain, the popularity of the monarchy reached a new zenith. Britons clung to the royal family as the last source of traditional color and ancient ceremony. And the royal family was something much more, though more intangible: the visible embodiment of good form-what the British call "decency." King George's quiet courage, his unostentatious persistence in meeting the everyday duties...
Tight Monopoly. Over the years, Big Bill's sledgehammer tactics raised carpenters' wages (current range: $1.75 to $3 per hour) and got them jobs they might otherwise have lost to rival trades. He clung with fierce determination to the tight little monopoly of the A.F.L.'s building-trade unions; he restricted membership, encouraged featherbedding, refused to recognize new building methods and materials. But during the Depression, he lost thousands of members to the C.I.O., did not recoup his losses until the boom years of World...
...they converged on it, the choking breath of disaster caught them. Heat, smoke and blinding eddies of thick coal dust were 'blowing out of two long tunnels named Old Main North and New Main North. The walls and ceilings seemed to press in, and the miners clung to each other as they fumbled desperately along. They retched and gasped. In the murk, some met a pitiful few who had lived to walk, bruised and dazed, out of the areas near the blast...
...never comes to know his true self or his native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen sun over the ocean shone in their faces." Novelist Dos Passos was better when he was angry...