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...England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain's financial pants for two and a half centuries had been held up by the stoutest braces. At last the almost omniscient Treasury had made a major mistake in estimating how the world's currency exchanges would react...
...with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn't mean anything to me. I know he's working up some hate he has." Sometimes the little fellow returns and says experimentally: 'You silly cow.'" Mrs. Neill fails to react, and the boy is supposed to lose his little inhibition...
...long enough to turn out a well-trained soldier or a bluejacket. But a longer period, said the committee, would have "an adverse effect on the processes of higher education," which is also an essential part of national defense. During basic, boys would be taught to think, act and react like soldiers. The commission's plan followed almost exactly the one proposed by the War Department last January after it had dropped its proposal for one year of training as politically unpalatable...
...Guppies react much the same way. During the war, White was trying to trace the complicated track of the silent waves as they bounced around inside a tank of water. Baffled by their gyrations, he bought a school of guppies and dumped them into the tank. The little fish lined right up to outline the waves...
Madman's Memory is a study of how the two women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...