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...brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...
...dovelike flutter of hands...
Singing her songs of loves that are dead or dying, she seems at times on the verge of tears, suddenly switches to a hardly repressed gust of defiant laughter. What the words do not say she suggests with a sway of her body, a flutter of her fan, a twirl of her floor-brushing skirts. Her biggest hit: Pena Penita (Little Sorrow...
Charwoman Guest and ex-Teacher Lumsden are only two of the 10 million Britons (one in every three adults) who send off their pennies and sixpences each week to "have a flutter" on some 100 football pools. The average weekly bet is low (about 50?), the chances of winning about one in 30.* The payoffs run from a half crown to the maximum of ?75,000. But because of the get-rich-quick lure and the fascination of working out "the perfect system," playing the pools has be come a national gamble that keeps families all over Britain busy...
...putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers on the machine's flutter valves...