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...ancient language called Early Soghdian. The first crisis is whether Calvert is to be elected a fellow of the college. In one of those vendettas of common room and high table that no one describes with more authoritative relish than C. P. Snow, Calvert squeaks through. But Roy is prey to manic-depressive demons, and he is tortured by his need "for the authority of God." Neither heavy drink nor light promiscuity can help him. For a time he flirts with Hitlerism, seeking the force that is lacking in effete British aristocrats who seem played out even beyond the demands...
...sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge-to convert our good words into good deeds-in a new alliance for progress-to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house...
...held countryside, wildly firing .30-cal. machine guns and 5-in. rockets toward any clump of trees where they thought the enemy might be hiding. Soviet commentators instantly broke into shrill cries of alarm, declared it was just like "the grim days of the 1930s, when fascist birds of prey barbarously bombed Spanish towns...
...Yardlings fell prey to Dartmouth's superior sprinters, failing to take a first place in any of the short distance events; and they saw their hopes of winning the meet shattered as the Indians churned their way to a new Dartmouth freshman record in the final relay for a 51-43 victory...
...example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or "red Johnny," a growth-stunting protein deficiency (signs: reddish hair, bloated belly) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease...