Word: line-it
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...stand in line-it's Junior Parent's Weekend, after all-and the talk is about music. He says he has diverse tastes, but British music (Blur is mentioned) truly stops traffic. Carpenter himself, a native of North Caloifornia, is half-British...
Carswell's ineptitude, his racism, and his defeat are givens in Harris's account of the debate. Decision is a chronicle of the Senate's enlightenment. That the distance between the senators' political instincts and their final votes was never a straight line-it took Senator Brooke, for one, five weeks to come around-constitutes the miracle. There are times when one wishes that Harris had pressed senators more closely on their individual revelations. What were the reasons behind Margaret Chase Smith's "nay," for instance. Decision is a mosaic of the telephone calls, the speeches, the cloakroom chats...
...become a missionary after all, and it was only a question of time before he had permission to shuck his soutane and go to work on the oldest profession. He never lectures his girls. "Moral strictures serve for nothing," he explains. "I am like a fisherman with his line-it is impossible to persuade the fish to bite; they must do that themselves if they like the bait. What is necessary is to give these women the consciousness of human dignity. Then one bright day they change their way of life themselves...
...Mars) designed by his project partner, Airman Howard Hughes-a far cry from Kaiser's original offer to get right to work on an order for 5,000 planes. But considering the painstaking nature of aircraft engineering-with its many slips between drawing board and production line-it was probably a practical start...
...there was something about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with...
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