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...Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...
...khaki clothes on the linoleum floor. The shirt, clammy from three days' accumulated sweat, clung dankly to him. The pants, crusted with dirt and splotched with tractor grease, slipped on over the cotton print shorts in which he had slept. The three-hook farm shoes, their sides eaten by barnyard acids, stayed untied as he clomped to the door of his parents' bedroom and hallooed to wake his mother...
...same sensations in the ordinary course of duty. The comparisons may not be exact, but I can personally guarantee a decided similarity. For example, many an infantryman has slept in a water-filled foxhole for "hours of darkness"; frozen, greasy hamburger or spaghetti in the same condition has been eaten (albeit, without much relish) by the same infantrymen; and if anyone thinks a hot, dusty, cramped medium tank on the Sahara Desert is any picnic, let him try it; while we are about it, let's not forget the unpleasantness of a 12-in. gun turret firing support missions...
...White: We felt that this was rather important for two reasons. In the first place, he enjoyed it-he wanted it. Secondly, breakfast is often the best meal of many patients who have not eaten through the night, and he hadn't eaten much during the past 24 to 36 hours anyway . . . Some people might say, "Why did he have such a very big-sized breakfast?" It was not very big-pretty soft, easily digested. Why did he have eggs, since eggs now are being deprecated against? We have to supply some fat to the body...
...Paul Dudley White, world-famous heart specialist, flew in from Boston on a special Air Force transport plane and was whisked to the hospital in a blue Air Force limousine. Dr. White doubted that either the 27 holes of golf or the heavy food the President had eaten could bring on a heart attack. About four hours after Dr. White's arrival, Major John Eisenhower, the President's son, planed in from Washington...