Word: crushes
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...crush, a few young men climbed up to overhead electric cables, which by some chance were not live, and swung dizzily along them to safety. But others of the frightened were ground relentlessly into one another, until clothes, then lives, fell away. Pilgrims only a few dozen yards away could not hear the cries of the desperate amid their own chants of "Victory to Mother Ganges" and "Long live religion." Eager to reach the confluence, they pressed forward into the vortex...
...difficulty seeing which card was attracting all the attention at the end of the rack. He pushed against the several men and the girl in front of him and read: "This Valentine shows quite clearly that. . ."Someone opened it. A portable mousetrap smashed his thumb. Ouch. "I have a crush on you," the greeting concluded with small consolation. Clever, Vag thought...
...Unanimous No. Did Russia dare accept the challenge? Would it gamble its own ambitions in Germany and its desire to crush EDC on a free German election? The Western foreign ministers felt sure that they knew the answer, but they wanted Germany and the rest of the world to hear...
...there could be no peace between the fundamentally progressive, Western-influenced Naguib regime and the West-hating, reactionary Brotherhood. Either Nasser would crush the Brotherhood or be crushed by it. Last June the revolutionary regime got word that Brotherhood agents were inflaming dissident police and army men, to prepare a coup...
Like a fresh tennis ball, Cress loses a little fuzz after each encounter with life, but goes on bouncing through another dozen escapades, all readable, if predictable. There is the schoolgirl crush on her piano teacher, a puppy-love phase with the spindly, spectacled whiz of the Latin class, the first cigarettes, first house parties, first pimples...