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...assumption that the year of crisis with Russia, "the year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis was 1952; in 1949 it was 1954; last year it was 1956.) As their economies began to creak and their political supporters to groan under the strain, European leaders tried to persuade Dean Acheson & Co. to spread the effort thinner over a longer period. Winston Churchill was roundly condemned in the U.S. last year for proclaiming a stretch-out. Now the U.S. talked the same language...
...easy to groan at, but impossible to quarrel with a tuition hike. It has been coming ever since the inflation of the Korean War. But any tuition rise at Harvard starts of frenzied grubbing for more scholarship funds, more student employment, and other ways to help the students from average income families meet the new rates. It shoves still farther into the future the day when Harvard can achieve a truly national student body, both geographically and economically, Because these unpleasant repercussions are inevitable, any tuition rise should be as small as possible...
...also discussed the dry issues of the party platforms, sometimes dryly; and he also frequently spoke with eloquence rarely heard in a political campaign: "We have become guardians of a civilization built in pain, in anguish and in heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow in majesty and the world will rise and grow with...
Finally, the boys told the vicar, they found another party with a rope. One of them worked his way 60 feet down into the crevasse; that was as far as his rope would reach. He heard a groan from below and shouted; there was no answer. "There was light enough," he said, "but I couldn't see him. I think he was covered with snow." The boys had no choice but to go on down the mountain for the night. "If we could have gotten him out," one of them sobbed, "we would...
...himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music. As they clinch on the runway, Charles says: "Let's not moan and groan . . . let's bill and coo." And they do. It completes a modern passage to India heavy with First Class platitudes...