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...maybe worse, thought Vag several hours later. This last minute stuff is for Freshmen. Or birds. Examinations were so unfair because you only had the night before to review. Well, next term I'll be different, Vag thought. I'll fool them and do the reading ahead of time. Way ahead of time, he ran his pencil back and forth across the page until he had nicely furrowed one paragraph. He scratched his car with the eraser and looked at his watch. Right where I should be. He skipped the next thirty pages, to give himself a half-hour break...
Like the average man that he is, Peck is nobody's fool. He knows that his talents, though real, are not extraordinary. He is acutely aware of the wide gap between his natural abilities and his smashing success. He knows pretty well how much of his spectacular rise he can credit to himself, how much to pure luck, how much to the peculiarities of the flying-trapeze world he works in. He fully expects to wake up one of these days and find himself in San Diego again, driving a truck...
Perhaps even more important is the fact that most of the matches, although impressive, have been against less experienced teams and failed to provide a fool-proof measure of the Yardlings' ability. Yet when the Colby freshmen invaded the Arena ice in the last match, the Crimson yearlings piled up an 11 to 3 tally...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
...stand he was witty, self-possessed, contemptuous of his surroundings, making full use of his amazing memory for details. Peremptorily he picked the few defendants on whose behalf he wished to intercede. Of Field Marshal Shunroku Hata he said: "I will testify for that man. . . . He's a fool." Of ex-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: "My personal good friend. He, together with myself, has always been opposed to war." But most other defendants he decided to condemn-admittedly for reasons of personal revenge. Said Tanaka: "I feel the truth is necessary for Japan and for the world. That...