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Just then a farmer came in and poured himself coffee. "Windy where you been?" a coffee sipper asked. "It took off my hat, and that's the last I seen it," the newcomer said...
...theater of war in compact scenes and entertaining dialogue. Says a matador out to impress the author with his knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess, and lengthens her name...
Although he had seen no one, Connaughton sensed they had been watched entering and leaving his apartment building. He had not seen, in the entryway four doors up the street, the slight man in the dark blue coat and the broad- brimmed hat...
This was not Hesburgh's first exchange with the Vatican. He declined a Cardinal's red hat from his friend Pope Paul VI. His commanding presence also elicited an offer from Lyndon Johnson to run the space program, which Hesburgh declined, commenting that a priest with poverty vows should not be running a $6 billion agency. He also rejected a Nixon proposal to head up the poverty program. "I never wanted to be a sort of Cardinal Richelieu," he commented of these Government offers. However, he has sat as chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and as a board member...
...wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons, big and little. Birds in the air include meadowlarks, a splash of yellow on their underparts, and vermilion flycatchers...