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...absolutely determined that the result of this operation, having cost so much blood, must be the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut." During a military ceremony on Thursday, Sharon, too, adopted a more militant posture. Said he: "We have not returned the sword to the sheath and will not do so until the last of the terrorists has left Beirut...
...Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...
...gradually picked up the jargon: "Endgap" is the shelf at the end of an aisle: a "cutter" is a razor blade with a sheath: "fills" are sets of chores involving filling endcaps by opening cartons with cutters. A "carryout" means helping a perfectly healthy old lady carry six bottles of Sprite and getting stiffed...
...knows what causes multiple sclerosis, and there is no known cure for it. A degenerative disease of the central nervous system, MS destroys patches of myelin, the fatty tissue that forms a protective sheath around the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This interferes with the flow of nerve impulses, much in the way that faulty insulation can cause electrical shortcircuits...
Body Consciousness. The strapless look got broad exposure at the recent Academy Awards presentations when Elizabeth Taylor, Marlo Thomas and Marisa Berenson shouldered their part of the show in Halston sarongs. Audrey Hepburn sailed through her first Hollywood appearance in eight years in a strapless sheath by Givenchy...