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...list of a member's duties has become much longer, stressing particularly party discipline: members are instructed to report to higher-ups "any shortcomings in work" of their comrades, to "fight against a parading of well-being and the flush of success...
...Westinghouse's dry-land development of the atomic engine is successful, the seagoing version probably will be fitted into a flush-deck carrier of the new 60,000-ton Forrestal class...
...Jacqueline Armand," Christine parachuted into southeastern France and joined the Maquis. Once a party of Germans sent a dog to flush her out of a thicket hiding place. Christine made friends with the dog and got away. Later in Italy, she was stopped by a patrol. She raised her hands showing a live grenade in each. As the Italians stood with fingers trembling on their triggers, Christine and her partner backed away and escaped...
...chance it in the Williston Basin, after other oilmen had been drilling there sporadically and futilely for about 30 years. Jacobsen drilled to 11,000 ft. before discovering that "core samples," removed at 8,000 ft., indicated the presence of oil. By a new technique (using hydrochloric acid to flush oil out of close-pored limestone), Jacobsen found the oil that others had missed, and the great Williston rush...
...regime could not be fairly judged for at least three years, but Britons in local elections were making their provisional judgments earlier-and adversely. Many Tories now concede that if an election were held tomorrow, Labor would probably win. The notion that captured some Tories in the first flush of election victory, that they could make things better in a hurry merely by being better administrators, is now generally discredited...