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...killed if we let the perception of racism and nuclear war set in without countering it." Some aides argued that he should respond to the President's tactics with strong language of his own. Others urged Reagan to play it cool, claiming that the candidate's mild, aw-shucks style would make Carter's attacks boomerang...
Rebecca, Follett's 13th novel (several were written under pen names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...
...comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past, an appalled cockney rifleman yelled, "Strathcona's Orse! You'll be bloody bully beef...
Emotionally exhausted, the thin, bearded prisoner gazes at the noisy crowd outside his room and says in a mild voice, "I am captive of my people's love, their violence and their beliefs." Captive he is, for the Orthodox folk around the town of Kisamos, on the western tip of his native island of Crete, have kidnaped Bishop Eirinaios. For more than two weeks they have held him hostage in an empty room, refusing to free him until the church restores him as their leader...
...Asian scholar said he thought the bleeding may have been caused in part by a 1964 stab wound that damaged his liver while he was ambassador to Japan. Reischauer also has an ulcer--which he ruled out as a probable source of the recent bleeding--and he suffered a mild stroke five years...