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Next day the Communists won one of their few victories: knocking down three early-model Australian Meteor jets and one U.S. F-80, and losing only two MIGs. Cease-fire and lull were two words that airmen on both sides could not hear and did not heed...
...something to say, and he says it well. He writes tenderly of something that is dear to him. If we disagree in details, it is only as we disagree with a man who prefers redheaded women rather than blondes. We must be thankful for his well-expressed sentiments and heed his call, for it is our heritage...
Some Baptists and alumni protested hotly that the college was getting smeared with tobacco stains. They warned that if Wake Forest took the money, it might "lose its soul," might even find its name changed to Camel University.* But President Harold Tribble, a Baptist theologian from Charlottesville, paid no heed to the skeptics. He argued and begged at alumni banquets, civic meetings and Baptist groups. He pointed out again & again that the Reynolds Foundation had no intention of trying to run the college or change its name. Finally, half the necessary $15 million...
After the automobile was invented, Maine saw no reason for changing this philosophy. Other states adopted hand signals, and "summer" people who came north in big shiny cars got to signaling in a familiar manner at crossroads. State of Mainers paid no heed. No law said a man had to tell the rest of the world his business. Some upstarts, to be sure, tried getting hand signals through the legislature on at least four different occasions. But each time the idea was turned down on the ground that Maine winters are so cold that a man shouldn't have...
...become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher's hope that Jew and gentile may fashion an intellectual merger of their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle trail of hints. The Jews, he implies, might take less heed of the Talmud's warning ("Go not near the Grecian wisdom-it has no fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity...