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Five steps later, he ran headlong into a Chinese grenade. Fragments tore into him; one passed through the armhole of his armored vest into his lung. Lieut. Braestrup fell, critically wounded...
...does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does it almost too well...
...Viewed in a historical context, Israel may be regarded as a delayed climax to the overseas expansion of European peoples into non-European areas. And almost everywhere else in the world the rise of native nationalism has checked that advance and in areas like Indo-China, thrown it into headlong retreat. As a technologically advanced Western nation, Israel could successfully establish itself as a bridgehead in the Arab world. But in an age of spreading nationalism, the hatred of neighboring Arab peoples for Israel may grow rather than decrease with the passage of time. The presence of hundreds of thousands...
...your policies seem very narrow-minded." Hatoyama laughed uneasily: "But I'm not as arrogant as Yoshida, eh?" A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program." Ichiro Hatoyama replied: "I intend to be so." Then a Tokyo worker plunged headlong into the intricacies of trade with Red China and Formosa. Easily, as if the question involved no difficulties, Hatoyama answered the worker: "The Chinese Communists and Nationalists are both good, independent nations. Both are our good neighbors. I want to establish relations with Russia and Red China as soon...
...Truth is not a crystal one can put in one's pocket, but an infinite fluid into which one falls headlong...