Word: detaching
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Homer Martin refused to regard it as such. He proposed somehow to detach C. I. 0. from John Llewellyn Lewis and denounce the man without denouncing the body. He cried...
...from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper end of the tube to Clara's body. He assumed that John's blood would nourish the tube until it became firmly rooted in Clara. He would then detach it from John, spread it and plant it on Clara...
Most delicate Daladier-Chamberlain finesse now being attempted is to detach from the Rome-Berlin Axis the dictatorial Government of Portugal, the country which has been Generalissimo Francisco Franco's chief source of transshipped munitions and troops all during the Spanish Civil War. This summer the Portuguese have been adroitly bargaining with Britain and Germany, haggling to see whether Democracy or Naziism would bid the higher. Portuguese ports have been alternately infested with British and German warships on "goodwill missions." According to London dispatches last week, a major bargain has now finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator...
...Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have detached or are trying to detach from China...
...would seem then that an earth tremor sufficiently violent to cause these supporting beams to slip out of their slings would be all that is required to detach the floors and precipitate glass flowers, meteorites, and pale-ontological exhibits into the basement. In any case Geology students working in the Museum have long been advised to depart from the promises at the first rumblings...