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From the canteen we went to the last blood pressure and medical history department. The nurse in charge there was harried. "Very busy day," she said, "must have had over 400--blood pressure normal--every time I've started to do anything--let me prick your finger to see if you've got enough iron--I've had interruptions--been sick in the past month?--well the day is nearly over. Go drink some water and sit down in that line...
...North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
...still had banks of elaborately carved, green-cushioned wooden benches ranged on either side, as before, in front of ornate oak-paneled walls. Two red lines, woven into the green carpet and thoughtfully placed just over two sword lengths apart so that overenthusiastic partisans could not prick each other, once again marked the limits beyond which members of opposing parties were not allowed to step in the heat of debate...
Since Archbishop Parker's day, many a good churchman has complained that the Table was outmoded. Year by year it began to look more oldfashioned. Some of the prohibited relationships now seem far from "incestuous and unlawful." But innovations take time. "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister," was the musical complaint of the Fairy Queen of satirist W. S. Gilbert's lolanthe...
Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...