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During the working day it helps to pray: "Lord, fill me with enthusiasm for my product (naming it)." With nightfall comes the time to "flush negatives," to practice "mind-drainage," or (after the fashion of Author Peale himself) to "visualize 'dropping' mental impedimenta into an imaginary wastebasket...
...been striking, on and off-so police said-for the last 16 years, but only now had the harassed New York City cops decided to let the city newspapers play the story up big, in the hope that wide publicity would flush him out. Besides, the Mad Bomber's latest activities were such that the cops could hardly keep the case to themselves...
Family Feud. Seeing these figures, Penn-Texas stockholders at last week's annual meeting slapped down the dissidents, gave Silberstein more ammunition for future swaps by voting to double the company's stock to 10 million shares (of which Silberstein now owns but 20,000). In the flush of victory, Silberstein charged that the revolt in his ranks was a Fairbanks, Morse device to frustrate his designs on their company...
...four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500-mile run to Nagasaki. It took the sorely tried Oyama aboard, and doctors went with him into the sub's decompression chamber. He spent 38 hours there and breathed a mixture of helium and oxygen to help flush out the nitrogen. At the end, Oyama could stand shakily on one leg, though the other was still paralyzed. Said Oyama: "If I get well I shall go back to diving because it is the only thing I know. But I will only go into shallow water-no more deep...
...Hothouse Flush. He takes to visiting her at the sanatorium, generously pays for her treatment and embarks on projects to prepare her for the outside world she must face when she is cured. He teaches her French because her only knack seems to be a gift for languages, brings her albums of great paintings, tries to broaden her knowledge of the world. But Aladar is the pupil, not Lalla. He meets two of her fellow patients-strangely charming Franciska, gently maternal Kati. He dotes on the three girls like a fond parent, becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush...