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...long ago you blasted Congress loud and long, and we all thought, "There is justice now and then, regardless of the old proverb." When your turn comes, you howl like kindergarten kids, till the country is persuaded that that is what...
Well illustrating the proverb that "a team which won't be beaten can't be beaten," Harvard's football team broke into the win column last Saturday with a stunning victory that jarred 25,000 spectators to their feet and far offset the four previous defeats suffered by the Crimson this season. More than that, the 19 to 14 triumph was a tribute to the spirit of the team and to the coaching skill of Dick Harlow...
Even though such optimism was unquenched, the Russian people were repeating a proverb that might fit the dark days still ahead: "Now we see flowers, but later they will turn to seeds...
...proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question. An old proverb says: "It is easier to march into Kabul than to march out again...
Hard-hitting Critica, pro-democratic evening newspaper in Buenos Aires, quoted a Chinese proverb: "It is more dangerous to shut the mouth of the people than to change the bed of a river." Last week the regime of President Ramon S. Castillo...