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...were applying for a job with one of the Government agencies that test your personality via the MMPI quiz, upon receiving the test I would first scratch the tender top of my head, look around to see if someone was watching, then proceed to brood over my strange sex life, occasionally invoking the Devil while thinking bad, often terrible, words to fortify my strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using...
...Because they scratch me, George...
Sentimental Second. He had that lesson in mind when the horses paraded to the post for the start of the Preakness at Pimlico last week. Lucky Debonair naturally was the favorite at 8-5-despite a bruised ankle that almost caused Trainer Frank Catrone to scratch him from the race. Tom Rolfe, the smallest horse in the field (at 15.2 hands and less than 1,000 lbs.), was the sentimental second choice, mostly because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired...
...buildings across the border and began recruiting college students willing to fit them out on their spring vacations. The first group, in 1962, turned four of the buildings into a clinic and classrooms. Next year the Amigos converted the other six; in 1964 they built six small clinics from scratch in outlying sections of Tijuana...
...picking up many Chinese social values. Waste of any kind is one of the worst sins there; math problems frequently take the form: "If every Chinese wasted one grain of rice each day and each grain of rice weighs one gram...." I learned to write on both sides of scratch paper before throwing it away and to use pencils until I could barely hold them. We always ate everything off our plates including the crust of rice around the edge of a bowl...