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...meanders. And much of his space is devoted to an elaborate chronicle of the abrasions of his second marriage, which ended with a divorce. Nonetheless, he knows Broadway-and the functional peculiarities of its people-as well as any man alive, and every now and then his words harden into nuggets worth noticing...
Concluding his criticism of a strategy which would depend on superbombs, McNamara said: "Very high-yield warheads are relatively inferior as second-strike retaliation weapons; it is much more difficult and costly to make them survivable-to harden, camouflage or make mobile the huge missiles required to deliver these weapons...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...
...point: Southern moderates, both in and out of Congress (especially in) will not be able to support a strong bill if increased Negro militancy makes it look as if they are capitulating to threats of violence. Their constituencies, softened slightly by the events of recent months, will harden into the old ways if thousands of Negroes besiege the Capitol this summer...
Learn Now, Pay Later. To reach the butcher and baker, Harden set about building an indefatigable, door-to-door sales force. Operating out of Los Angeles, Harden set up a course at which new salesmen learned how to use the Syntopticon and to pronounce the names of the authors (reading them is not required...