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...breathing, and was suspended face down in a tank of warm, slowly flowing water. In this "dead man's float" position, he was almost as out of this world as if he were still unborn. He could see nothing. He could hear nothing except his own breathing and faint water sounds from the piping. Except for the face mask and the gently touching supports, he could feel nothing. The temperature of the water, 94° F., made it feel neither hot nor cold...
...Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel is a Democrat, "but anyone who's Margaret's choice is O.K. with...
...Come to the Fair!" he calls in one essay. "The Fair of Life is a fine one, even though we may, at times, fall from the swing-boats, or grow dizzy and faint as we ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone...
...fragment, about 20,000 miles in diameter, shot out 200,000 miles before becoming too faint to see. The force necessary to produce this sudden acceleration was more than 1,000 times the pull of the earth's gravity, Menzel said...
...cried. Others panicked. We knocked at the doors, but there was no answer. In despair we began preparing ourselves for death. One of the prisoners started to chant the Shahada ("There is no God but God and Mohammed is His Prophet. . ."), and the rest of us followed in faint voices. One after another died. Death was getting us so quickly, so horribly...