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Jimbo-Jumbo, by now, was so important a news commentator-a man qualified to let everyone know that Germany would never attack Russia and that there was nothing to fear from Japan-that Ma and Pa could overlook his divorce. Briggsy took over everything that might disturb the great mind: his checkbook, his correspondence, the task of feeding his stomach ulcers their diet of hot milk every two hours...
...relationship between a liberal education and freedom is good sound American doctrine. ... I regret that during the last several decades we have had a tendency to overlook this important American fact. And I think we are paying the penalty for our shortsightedness in unexpected ways...
...prophesy when this war will end". Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "On all fronts the outlook is favorable, but the situation does not justify extreme optimism. The German and Japanese forces have suffered relatively few major reverses. We would do very well not to overlook the offensive capabilities that still are theirs...
From the banks of the wide, swiftly flowing Gerua River in north Papua I can overlook the four fronts of the battle for Buna. But the only visible signs are two flat-topped pillars of smoke rising, one from Buna and one from Gona, and the Flying Fortresses weaving across the top of Buna through sooty puffs of ack-ack fire which are ragged now from repeated bombing. There is nothing else to see but the cloud-spattered tropic sky above the vast bowl of sun-drenched, emerald-green jungle, which is interspersed with patches of yellow, man-high kunai...
...Cummings up from the railroad Barnes. "The Ellis I can't Giffored to travel in Comeford, I'm Boston in my pig Blake, but I Kamp get a Whitmore than a Reid cont, not enough to light a Kiendi. It's a Gould thing I Dent Overlook Durwood for the doghouse, anyway, even if I am Stock so I'll Harvey to be a Walker to the game...