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...didn't bother to take out a city permit (which would have called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
McNeil repeatedly addressed Cheng as "Mr. Ambassador." At length the Chinese politely asked: "After this, how can you still call me Mr. Ambassador?" Painfully, McNeil answered: "Once an ambassador, always an ambassador." The Chinese musingly released a barbed shaft: "In my country we have a similar saying, 'Once a friend, always a friend...
...formal presentation at the Casa Rosada last week, Sylvia was accompanied by Ambassador Griffis and his second in command, Lester Mallory. While the dogs made friends, Evita expressed her thanks and leveled a gay shaft at Grass Widower Griffis.* "Now that you have found a wife for Tambour," she smiled archly, "I shall have to find you a wife among our descamisadas...
More than 700 people fainted in the broiling sun, but swarms of sightseers climbed the monument's steps to gaze reverently at the bas-reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...
...only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...