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...nation's price stabilizer, Mike Di Salle is the man who is supposed to lasso prices at their highest level in history and hog-tie them-preferably by tomorrow morning, before the neighborhood A & P opens for business. He has to control prices, but he has no power over wages, on the other side of the balancing economic scales. He is supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other...
...enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class his usual thunder. "I want every person in this room to sit up!" he bellowed. "Get your chests out! Don't wobble like a hog . . . Breathe deeply . . . Breathe! Smile! Smile! Repeat after...
...never wise to get the Church down on one"). But God does not seem to help much. In the eyes of his friends, Diogène is a marked man. Accepted witnesses see him "in the guise of a werewolf," flapping wings like a giant bat, as a huge hog with seven lighted candles on his head...
...hero of a blood & thunder historical novel, Rodney could certainly have paid more attention than he did to the uneasy behaviour of his own sepoy infantrymen. They were badly upset by the rumor (true enough, in fact) that their rifle cartridges were greased with a mixture of beef and hog fat: by the sanctions of religion, the use of beef fat was mortal offense to the Hindus among them, hog fat to the Mohammedans. Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered...
Tomorrow is Ground Hog Day. Fearful of its shadow, the CRIMSON will hide in its burrow under the ramshackle press and refuse to emerge until Monday morning. Then, with a new mask, it will fearlessly commence the new term. Drive carefully...