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...pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
While it would be doing a grave injustice to call Nikki common, I think I have seen the general type before. Her "party," on the other hand, was composed of 8--of the good-clean-kids type--8, cracking nuts in their teeth and carrying with them a faint aroma of tobacco juice. On the whole, our first "contact" with our neighbors across the way was about as impressive as a Harvard Commissioning...
...nearby building and looked over the fiery panorama. Through the smoke we counted eight ships already burning fiercely. The entire center of the harbor was covered with burning oil and thousands of tongues of flame licked up through the smoke. Occasionally we could hear faint cries of help come over the water. 'There are a lot of poor wretches dying out there,' Rodger said...
...ASDIC could hear the destroyer coming, coming, and he reported: "Destroyer closing, destroyer closing," and you knew sooner or later it would be over the top. Then you hear the sort of faint splash-splash of the propeller getting faster and faster. This is the most frightening time. You hear this thing going over and you wonder, "Has he dropped it now?" I forget how many depth charges were dropped, 40 or 50. I remember saying to myself: "This is hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take...
...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...