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Double Mission. The machine guns fascinated Chiang first; from his youth in Chekiang Province, he wanted to be a soldier. At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts. The high marks got him a chance to study at a military school in Tokyo. And here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried...
Because of la cometa, more people than usual were praying in Mexico City churches, but they lighted fewer candles at the altars. Explained sad-eyed Maria Rodríguez, as she stood in the queue at the corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent...
...antisocial man is irresponsible and ill-bred," snaps Author Fenwick, i.e., at funerals he grins cheerily at his fellow mourners; at weddings he actually shows "unrestrained gaiety." He cannot stand in a queue without "sneaking up to a higher place," or walk out of his apartment house without dropping his butts in the hallway (instead of in the Lowestoft). All the same, he strikes the reader as a more attractive man than he will be after he has let Vogue lighten his darkness...
...field they climbed into a C-54, one of three waiting in a queue. They checked over the plane, took a look at the cargo-flour and condensed soup...
...Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow Finn, Heinstrom, padding at his heels. Like a patient English housewife in a fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping the stragglers; Heino, unable to keep up, stepped off the red clay track, exhausted...