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...trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...when a general persisted in arguing an issue which Kyes considered closed, "Jolly Roger" reached out and flicked the four stars on the officer's shoulder straps with his fingertips. "Look," he said, "I didn't come down here to shovel snow. I came down here to pluck stars...
Since the Palestine "armistice" of April 3, 1949, the almost ritualistic routine of daily raiding and killing has provided full-time work for peacemakers of the U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission. Refugee Arabs raid across the border to pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or some lengths of irrigation pipe from the Israeli side. The Israelis raid back in force to shoot up the Arabs. Local commanders sometimes smooth over incidents; other times the MAC has to move in for an investigation, then fitful peace returns...
...sistance. In Milbank, S. Dak., just as Mrs. Albert Lindell was preparing to pluck the pheasant which her husband had shot, the bird took wing, flew out of the kitchen...
...native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...