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...only three measly minutes" had been devoted to debate on the pending business-his resolution to hold debate to the pending business. Church called it "an indication of how this institution seems to be sinking into a quagmire, in which it thrashes about like a dinosaur about to become extinct...
...clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal Tory, John Bull in his own barnyard...
...Europe's gypsies into Dachau and Buchenwald along with the Jews; the Soviets liquidated the bez-prizornye; the Welfare State frowns on the free-roving tramp; the American hobo has nearly died out, and even the Australian swagman, so mournfully celebrated in the national song, has become almost extinct...
Died. Frans Blom, 69, Danish explorer and archaeologist who went to Mexico in 1922, was so intrigued by the ruins of the ancient Mayas and by their nearly extinct descendants that he settled near the Guatemalan border, authored works on the Mayas (Tribes and Temples), raised two children from a Stone Age tribe in his home, training them in the ways of modern man so they could return as teachers to their people; of pneumonia; in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico...
...frankly considers them inferiors who rely on "temperament" instead of "temperance." He is contemptuous of the local party hack, who spouts Nazi clichés, but he has also a sneaking admiration for him: "In his round eyes, the eyes of a bird of prey, I saw the extinct race of ancient Rome, which had marched intrepidly over the whole expanse of the ancient world and conquered it." He admits his isolation from the mainstream of European life: "The most worthless German parvenu was closer and more understandable to me than an educated foreigner...