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...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...
Prairie Godiva. The trail-end towns seemed to be designed with two things in mind: receiving cattle and raising hell. The very names of towns like Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene made decent folk shudder in the 1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about...
Despite such precautions, there was an incident which caused a shudder to run through the Chamber of Commerce. Truman, out for his daily swim, was standing waist-deep in water near the sand of Truman Beach. As usual, three Secret Service agents were in the water near him and two more were in a small boat not far away. The men in the boat suddenly shouted with alarm. They had spotted two large grey fish about four feet long pursuing a school of four-inch garfish. The Secret Service men thought the big fish, heading for the area where Truman...
...when various espionage agents and spies become national heroes, I shudder. This is a very filthy business with no romance about it. Espionage can be and often is a violation of people's civil rights--even of those who are abusing them...
...have available in Manchuria some 600 jets-most of them presumably MIGs-the U.N. would have to make available more than the single wing (normal complement. 75 planes) of Sabre jets now flying against the Reds, or face the sort of losses which still make World War II airmen shudder at the name of Schweinfurt...