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...work trying to erect a new levee against the Red flood in Asia. Said President Eisenhower: "The United States is actively pursuing discussions with other free nations with a view to the rapid organization of a collective defense in Southeast Asia in order to prevent further direct or indirect Communist aggression in that general area...
Scripps-Howard's Boss Roy Howard stood his ground, answered calmly: "Mrs. Loeb has no connection, direct or indirect, with the management of the concern. She has just the same right to send a telegram as my cook or anyone else. As for Bill Loeb, he is still galled because he can't get his camel nose in this tent...
Drawn Blinds. The hero can see just about everything that goes on in the six or eight flats that rump into the same areaway as his, and Hitchcock, in a masterpiece of indirect exposition, lets the moviegoer play Peeping Tom until all at once he sees something that strikes him as-well, peculiar. That burly salesman in the second-floor flat of the modern apartment building, the one who so patiently nurses the complaining invalid wife-why does he make a number of trips out into the rain, one at 2 a.m., carrying his sample-suitcase...
...just as the investment holdings have had no indirect effect on University policy, Harvard has not endeavored to have any direct effect on these companies except in the role of a minority stockholder. "We have never tried to assert control," reports Cabot...
...education institutions are always eager to do what they can to alleviate world difficulties, but the help they give is usually indirect, in the manner of books and scholarly solutions and such. But there is nothing more direct than drinking wine, or using it, for that matter, and this is where the University, so to speak, enters...