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...attorney general so that a court could pass on his mental condition, thus preventing it from becoming an issue in the vote-fraud trial. Two days later, just across the Mississippi state line near Waynesboro, Garrett's car plunged off the highway. His neck was broken, one elbow fractured and his left ear almost torn off. But doctors said the attorney general of Alabama will live to stand trial...
...established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched the new hole by cutting away the coattails, finally went about in a coat cut shorter than his vest...
...Cogny planned escape so that he could get back to the fighting. He studied German ; he kept in trim by hiking every day around his P.W. camp; he secretly tailored civilian clothes from his blankets. Then one dark night, pushing their homemade clothes before them, Cogny and three companions elbow-crawled naked through a drainpipe that led out beneath the camp walls-getting stuck for an agonized 15 minutes on the way. At the drainpipe outlet, Cogny heard alarm sirens and the snuffling of a huge German police dog. "I lay there without breathing," he said, "and for some reason...
...protest the existence of a street called McCarthy Road, which grazes the University just east of Fair Dunster House. For the most part, Harvard has been able to escape the influence of McCarthyism. But to keep this street so named is to irritate a running sore on the elbow of the University. I think the governors of the University, who pay so much in taxes to the City of Cambridge, should prevail upon the Cambridge fathers to change the name of McCarthy Road to Welch Boulevard. Thus would an evil influence be eliminated, and a true son of Harvard...
...never been permitted to see. His more familiar talent-the ability to bob, weave and pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit into the party in Germany in 1922. With his administrative deftness, Chou helped...