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...committee meeting last week by having a recording machine and microphones placed on the table. His purpose, he explained afterwards, was "to show them how they sounded all cackling at once." Committee members, who are as fond of gruff, gritty Chairman Hoffman as he is of cackling, got very sore. After a flurry of angry protest Holifield made a motion that the machine be turned off, and the vote went 20-3 in favor. "Pull the plug," said Hoffman sourly...
...less than 81 cases of streptococcal sore throat were found among patrons of a college dining room, and were traced to the least excusable source: pus draining from the wound of a cook who had cut his thumb...
...week after her death, Carlyle paid his last tribute to Goodykin and the hard life he led her: "She . . . fought and toiled for me valiantly at all moments up to that last, how loyally, lovingly and bravely, and through what sore paths and difficulties is now known only to God and one living mortal...
...crime had ideological roots. Children of East European immigrants who settled in Manhattan's lower East Side, both Julius Rosenberg and his future wife Ethel Greenglass took to Communism in their adolescent years. In so doing, they rejected the Jewish faith of their parents (a sore blow to Julius' father, a garment worker who yearned for his son to be a rabbi). So ardent was 19-year-old Ethel's devotion to the cause that she began indoctrinating her 13-year-old brother David. Then she found a comrade and a beau in Julius, two years...
...Knobby Facts. In other words he says, pay attention to facts. Facts like sticks and stones, running water, a sore toe or a deformed baby may be "perplexing, unexplainable, intolerable, or fearful, but they are the real root of human experience...