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...seconds they rested there, while the winch unwound all its cable. But then they suddenly shot upwards about halfway to the first floor, as the spinning winch started to take in the cable again...
...give in too much to Nasser was to ire the British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...simple instrument, and then testing the method on live dogs to see how well they stood the operation. With encouraging answers to both questions, Dr. Bailey got a supply of May curettes: metal tubes, only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, nine inches long, with a nick filed halfway through at one end. On Oct. 29 he was ready for his first patient, a man of 51 who had had a severe heart attack in 1953, and now faced lasting invalidism because insufficient blood was reaching his heart muscle...
...black pots of your desperation, what a witches' brew you've brewed with your story. Nobody could have supposed that the campaign of a putrid peach like Georgia's Talmadge held any interest for you halfway through the fall of '56 - his election is not even an issue. Has the prowess of the real Democrats driven you so far as to drag Mr. Stevenson through...
...revolutionary proposal: now that you have all that muscle, why not use it for some practical purpose? "In Scotland," Samson went on, "the tendency is to throw things. I think you should throw something. Geordie." Geordie was electrified. He promptly picked up a sledge hammer and threw it halfway to the coast of Norway. The laird (Alastair Sim) happened at the time to be stalking a capercaillie in the gorse, saw the thing go flying by, and nigh jumped out of his baggy tweeds. In no time at all, Geordie was winding up for his first throw at the Drumfechan...