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...rare previous operations, lungs had been removed in stages, or had been forced to slough off gradually by having their blood supply...
City Sticker. In Slough, England, after police caught him .carrying a gin. bayonet, Nicholas Smith told a magistrate's court: "I was going to London, and you know what life's like there...
...reasoning: if New England helps the states that stand to benefit from the seaway, then those states might be more willing to help lift New England from its economic slough. Soon to follow Kennedy's lead was New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Smith, who said he would switch from opposition to the bill as a matter of loyalty to Eisenhower...
Less than 200 miles of water separates Port Sudan from the Saudi Arabian port of Jidda, which is a 50-mile walk from Mecca. But before the pilgrim may have his passport stamped to cross the Red Sea, he must get through a slough of red tape: pay the British authorities pilgrim fees (later remitted to Saudi Arabia); submit to medical examination; have his arm stabbed with sharp needles against epidemic diseases; pay for his return passage...
...Representative Reed is apparently willing to slough off the dangers of a deepening deficit to promote a popular bill. He continues to push it through Committee in the face of warnings from Eisenhower's Budget Director, Joseph N. Dodge, that a June tax reduction will scotch any hopes for a balanced budget this year. The Administration has renounced the pleasant myth that pared waste can end deficit spending. Now the House should take Eisenhower's new lead and reject in forceful terms Reed's cavalier financing...