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...twenty German soldiers lay lifeless on the ground...
...shock. This is a state of physical and mental depression which follows injury. Simplest ways to recognize shock are by a victim's complexion, failing respiration; if he turns white, has a lifeless expression, he must be covered up immediately, kept warm, given a sniff of spirits of ammonia, a drink of strong tea or coffee. First Aiders must never give alcohol to their victims...
...hours of billing and cooing but the youngsters on the screen and a similar period of oohing and ahing by slobberly sentimental housewives in the seats behind you. Walter Pidgeon--hereafter to be known as the dead pigeon--does as much as can be done with a role as lifeless as King Tut. Greer Garson, with her red hair in a big knot, looks like seven pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag--and I do mean bag. The picture as a whole--well, we won't be unkind--we'll just say it stinks...
Then he wrote his one book, a ponderous, lifeless, two-volume work which was technically a history of Santo Domingo, actually a careful indictment of U.S. foreign policy in the Hemisphere. The title was Naboth's Vineyard (Naboth was done out of his vineyard by King Ahab), and Welles struck out at Ahab-like Uncle Sam, at dollar diplomacy, at the use of military force to achieve diplomatically negotiable ends. He urged instead the stimulation of commercial ties, the interchange of experts, the sharing of the responsibility of keeping the Hemispheric peace. This was the germ of the Good...
...Lifeless Living. Workaday Germany is no less tired than in winter, for work hours are still 60 hours a week for men, 56 hours for most women. The pay is still low: whole families work and pool wages to make a livable family income. After work, men stand an hour or more in line in front of tobacco shops to get five cigarets, made, they say, of "sunburned grass." Women stand before candy stores to get the 20 pieces of candy allowed each person monthly. They have to visit seven or eight shops to add a vegetable or fruit...