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...present practitioners are no more than mere name callers, repetitiously stumbling through the same comminations . . . mumbling a string of bawdy epithets." Trying its own hand, the Tennessean did a little better, but not much. Crump, wrote Editorialist Perry, is a "foulmouthed old boss . . . ugly and snarling ... a contemptible relic of the barbarous past...
...American paratroopers who were landed south of the town. They found the Germans in command of both the north and south ends of the coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns. Atop the tower were more guns...
Once a rival of Florence, San Gimignano had already dropped to commercial obscurity by the 15th Century, had drifted on to modern times almost unchanged, a perfect relic of Dante's Italy. Thirteen of its original 72 square towers still survived...
States' Rights is a worn-out issue, a relic. The answer to "the present Administration's arbitrary use of vast authority . . . the inefficiencies and reckless extravagances . . . lies not in a weakened central government." The answer lies in government administered under law, substituted for government "by caprice...
...newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts as parching as the plains. It is also as informative as an encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence...