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...Coffin would not listen. This was a trying moment, truly, the son of a beloved sister, to fall by their hands. Who can doubt but that Pollard would rather have met the death a thousand times. None that knew him will ever doubt. Neither of his companions but that shrank from the heart-rending trial. So they were compelled again to cast lots that who should draw the fatal trigger. As if the fate would have it, the awful die turned upon Captain Pollard, [who] for a long time declared that he could never do it, but finally...
...Cabinet minister and third man in his party's leadership. With the post of Prime Minister in his reach, Kitchen gave a splenetically injudicious "twenty-five-minute speech and a fifteen-second interview" that blasted his career. Beached by the tides of power, the political leviathan shrank to a minnow, indulged as the darling of his party's young hotbloods. This is the lesser half of an in-depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts...
...section on Darwin's life in Biology, a text published by Silver Burdett, was cut from 1,373 words to 45. Discus sion of the origins of life went from 2,023 words to 322. Text devoted to Darwin's view of evolution shrank from 2,750 words to 296. Sections on fossil formation and geologic eras were deleted entirely...
They would proceed from a strong premise-The Incredible Shrinking Man, a deadpan 1957 sci-fi thriller-and give it a feminist twist. While the original protagonist shrank from a dose of radiation, Tomlin's happy homemaker would suffer from exposure to the mysterious ingredients in supermarket products: everything from "tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents...
...people, we allowed our economies to become overloaded, overregulated and insufficiently profitable. We overdid it." The stagflation engendered by the post-1973 oil price crisis eroded both tax revenues and purchasing power. Swelling unemployment added to relief rolls. Yet even as the resources to pay for them shrank, government outlays for social services kept growing. The squeeze on national budgets may require such NATO allies as West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands to reduce planned defense spending in order to maintain welfare levels...