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...comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other cats disappeared or died, but Momi stayed on, even condescending to learn a few parlor tricks (like raising a paw on command) for the signalmen in Tower...
...illusion that everything would be rebuilt anew. I who have never placed hope in politics trembled with hope in that moment. And here we are in the same ruts we were in 13 years ago; the coach rattles more, the horses are thinner and the flies are fiercer-that's the only difference...
...fiercer aspects, Joe Jones* was one, of the angriest proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...
White Johannesburgers barricade their homes at night, do not venture out in the evenings except in cars, and keep revolvers and rifles handy. They also keep watchdogs, the fiercer the better: usually Dobermans or great Danes. Every white Johannesburger is ready to dial "30" (for the Flying Squad) at sign of trouble. To whites, between 300 and 400 firearm licenses are granted every month. The most popular weapon with the pistol-underthe-pillow population is a .25 automatic...
...Yale, a fiercer "flu bug," which is actually a virus, hit the campus last week. The Health Department there called it the most serious since 1945 and inoculated over 1,000 undergraduates as a preventive...