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...With a rafter-quaking oratorical style. Clement hopes to roll his throbbing clauses to the vice-presidency this year. A typical Clement peroration: "Once in this world, a lonely figure climbed a cross-marked hill, and went from there into an airless tomb. He was the foe of lies, dishonor, theft and treachery. He was the champion of truth, honor, faith and bravery. It is my fervent prayer that I can so live as to be worthy of His sacrifice. If you cannot find it in your hearts to give me your votes, I beg you to give me your...
...April budget," he thundered across the aisle, "was not the incentive to people to produce more, but it was an incentive to vote Conservative." He pressed home the attack: "Having bought his votes with a bribe, the Chancellor is forced-as he knew he would be -to dishonor the check...
...Russo-German alliance, with the hero's "deflation." Crouchback finds himself "back after less than two years' pilgrimage in a Holy Land of illusion in the old ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author...
...severed thumb, and had philosophically tucked his handful of medals into an old cigar box. With nothing else to occupy him after World War I, Gaston began, like many another retired hero, to run down his family's history. Thus he discovered his family's dishonor: on a day in October 1697, Captain Eugéne Le Torch, commanding the frigate La Douce, 32 guns, had run from an English vessel that carried only...
...condemned McCarthy for 1) contempt of the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) his conduct toward the Senate and the Watkins committee since censure was recommended. Over and above these specific counts, McCarthy's colleagues censured him for bringing the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and for obstructing its legislative processes...