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Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...
...fact of the matter is that nobody in official Washington stood up to be counted against McCarthy. In the end, those who successfully opposed him did not do so out of any sense of outraged principle: It was just that, for a change, their own ox was being gored. Thus we have the spectacle of the Secretary of the Army suggesting that the real goods on subversives and homosexuals were to be gotten by investigating the Air Force and the Navy, rather than the Army. And Senator Symington's famous outburst against McCarthy came only after Symington himself was personally...
...alert on defense, ready to pounce on any Crimson miscues. But Harvard didn't make many mistakes. Paced by McClung, who scored 16 points in the first half, the Crimson shot well and rebounded creditably--despite the presence of two rubber-legged forwards and a 6 ft. 9 in. ox on the B.U. starting five...
...more quickly, the drums began to throb and the horns to bray. Deep and profound through all of it rolled the resonant bass of the "tambari" (the Royal Drum) which was held by the tribe in an almost religious awe and took the whole skin of a full grown ox to dress each surface. The tambari is the repository of the basic tribal esprit de corps and is held in both reverence and affection...
...fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular. Dr. Ox is a gasser...