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...Central (as everything from machinist apprentice to comptroller), was elected a vice president, as such will have the use of a private car. Later this month Martin will ride in the car to Newton to fulfill the rest of the prophecy. Said he: "I'd be an ungrateful cuss if I didn't." To make sure that Jessie Swem would be there, Martin sent out a query, found out that she is now Mrs. Claude Johnson, and living in Omaha, sent her a special invitation to his party...
Almost to a man, the troops seemed to admire Ridgway's handling of the truce negotiations, but groaned profanely every time the talks stalled. "Here we go again," some said, adding their personal cuss words. No one doubted that the Eighth Army, the most effective and self-confident army the U.S. has ever fielded, would fight angrily, hard and well if called on again...
...mere 113 Ibs., tosses her burnished, straw-colored hair in a girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still...
...getting a lot from classes too. For example, there's a prof named Fritz Roethlisberger who teaches Human Relations. That means how to get an ornery cuss to do something your way instead...
...program for organizing benevolence from WhitehallSir Charles knows his way around a bureaucracy. But Armitage feels obsolete. "All now was duty, nothing was love," Author Bentley has him reflect. "He was called vermin by a Cabinet Minister and told he did not matter a tinker's cuss...