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...President Shukri el-Kuwatly said: "This generation of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchman walk through the streets of Damascus." In neighboring coastal Lebanon, anti-French feeling mounted. When Lebanese demanded that "something be done here as was done in Syria," they meant that British troops should eject the French from the newly sandbagged public buildings and from street-corner barricades in Beirut, where the French last week emplaced machine guns...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-fifth year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
...more the professor spoke the more poignant became "the call of the wild." After several hilarious minutes the lecturer, who all this time was trying his utmost to retain his dignity, decided that he'd had enough competition for one morning, and proceeded to take steps to eject the canine from the room...
...isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
Tall, trim Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor-eject of Burma, arrived in London impatient to dispel two nasty suspicions: 1) that many of the Burmese people had helped the enemy into their country; 2) that evacuating British forces had left Burmese earth unscorched. Said Old Harrovian Sir Reginald: "The Burmese with any stake in the country played the game by Great Britain. When the invasion began, the Japanese did not succeed in winning over a single Burman of any weight...