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Young Washington also discouraged going "out your Chamber half drest," warned gentlemen not to let their tongues "Loll out," not to "Puff up the Cheeks," "gnaw your nails," "read other people's letters," and he advised that "Discourse with Men of Business" should be "Short and Comprehensive." "Men of Quality" should not be looked at "full in the Face"; facial expressions should be "pleasant but in Serious Matters Somewhat grave...
...steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough to gnaw at the nerves...
...these related actions constituted a concerted effort to gnaw through the successive layers of Russia's front-wide defense-in-depth. For the Russians, the most disturbing sign was Timoshenko's seeming lack of enough equipment to turn the German tactics near Kharkov to his advantage. Given ample arms, he was in ideal position to smash Bock's advancing forces by simultaneous attack from all sides of the pocket. Perhaps Moscow was holding its fire for a larger crisis at Kursk; perhaps Timoshenko preferred to wait until the Kharkov pocket was deeper, the Germans more vulnerable...
...Oysterman's. "I would have clams-all the clams I wanted. Then I would have the finest steak the world ever saw. After that I would have the best strawberry shortcake in New York." But when he went to Billy's last week, Correspondent Denny could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much and got fierce pains in my stomach. The doctors tell me my stomach shrank while I was in jail and I tried to stretch it too fast...
...Beelzebub!" he roared at his right-hand man. "Get this unsufferable nitwit out of here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still...