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...large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes. The run stops as suddenly as it began. A storm is rising, and the fish go down...
...Lifted up from Washington next day, some Cabinet members were less game. Douglas McKay said he had spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing...
Equally taxing were the opera's numerous scenic effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...
...villain, he became the U.N.'s No. 1 crowd-puller. He brought a kind of energy to the staid U.N. and many delegates liked to cross swords with him, watch him flail the table with his fists, see the top of his head go pink with anger. Some diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix...
...House first boats will flail the Charles this afternoon as preliminary races for the crew championship are hold at 5:30 and 6 p.m. The drawing pit Eliot against Leverett, Dunster, and Dudley in the first race, while favored Winthrop faces Kirkland, Lowell, and Adams in the second...