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...waterspout of the heart," declaims Uncle Adrian, "and if you let it get clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled white...
...dollar-a-year men, no WPBs to help speed production. If big businessmen were needed, they would serve only in an advisory capacity. To drive home his point, he scattered the Defense Act's mobilization powers among a dozen existing bureaus. Through the summer and fall, industrial mobilization crept along, hobbled by indecision and conflicting authority. The only cry for action came from the NSRB's Stuart Symington...
Then fire engines, police cars, ambulances and taxicabs began drawing up. Emergency floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
...years ago General Education stopped being just another department in the College. In line with the policy of sacrificing highly technical assortments of fact before the altar of overall widespread knowledge, the general education influence crept into other fields, notably the social sciences...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...