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...chief's wife sets me a task, I would do it. But if a white woman says, 'Chop wood!', I would answer, 'How much?' " Another said: "Nobody can cast fire among the people he loves. If you bring this woman, the tribe will scatter and [pointing to a cattle stockade] you will be chief of these poles...
Compared to the largesse that soda-pop barons, pearl merchants and encyclopedia publishers scatter for works of art, the prizes from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute are penny ante stuff. First prize at the Carnegie amounts to only $1,500, but it is still the most honorable award of the season...
Noting a random scatter round the mean...
...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
Through the local priest they have established an unofficial truce with the Nazis. When the German general plans a "raid" he tips off the priest, who in turn warns the partisans. The eleven members of the "23rd Corps" scatter to the woods until the "raid" is canceled and then return to" their village. The formalities of war are observed, but no blood is shed...