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...their customs is pure Ainu: To raise and nourish bear cubs intended for religious sacrifice, Ainu women suckle them. This sacrificial throat-cutting is supposed to release divine spirits...
...They produce enough milk through enough functional nipples-four or more-to feed their twins. Most other sheep have only two nipples, which can scarcely nourish twins and which thus militates against a race of twin-bearers...
...lunch hour in Manhattan and all over the city waiters with flawless manners were getting orders wrong and with many an expert nourish placing the scrambled eggs before the man who ordered stuffed veal. Suddenly 40 immigration officials, 40 Canadian border patrolmen and 100 city detectives sprang from nowhere, seized 70 Italian waiters, and spread consternation through the $2-luncheon belt...
...want a war, nourish a doctrine...
Said the Commission: "The American people must not repeat the mistakes of the European democracies. Without becoming victims of hysteria, they should resolutely refuse to nourish pleasing illusions and should proceed in all haste to prepare for the worst . . . gird themselves to face the darkest period of their history. . . . In this world a people must be strong or perish." Main job facing the schools, said the Commission, is mobilization for moral defense. Its proposals: American Dream: "The American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify...