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...Three years ago it was Ball who prompted Avery to use the phrase "a very real conspiracy" to explain why he had lost so many of his top men. And at a meeting in 1950, when stockholders objected to Avery's iron-fisted rule, it was Ball who sprang to the defense of the boss. "We know each of us is under a test," said Ball. "There are weaknesses in all of us, and we expect Mr. Avery to point them out to us ... But we are not working here in fear. We are working in a spirit exactly...
Then Skippy went into his repertory of dazzling dives. For a climax, he sprang one of his "inventions" that would not have been officially recognized in the Olympics. Taking off from the board, he soared and began twisting and spinning. By the time he slithered into the pool, he had executed an astonishing running double-twisting forward 1½ somersault. The five judges were properly impressed, and Skippy Browning had finished his business: he copped the title, with 202.82 points over Ohio State's Runner-Up Bob Clotworthy, with...
...Adenauer, save me." The Chancellor crossed himself and dug downwards towards the voice. In a pit strewn with ruins he found Germania crucified, and stooped to draw out the nails clamping his nation's feet to a cross made by the Allies. As the nails came loose, Germania sprang up, and with a mighty kick booted Adenauer out of the chapel...
...swallow it, the Negro is the true human," declared Dr. Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys. "Man's common ancestor was dark-skinned . . . You," Jeffreys assured his astonished listeners, "are just bleached specimens of original, dark-skinned primitive man . . . While we [whites] were still dark-skinned, the Negro sprang from our dark ancestor. He is the newest species...
...pushed along a corridor into the death chamber of Montreal's Bordeaux Jail one midnight last week. Guards lifted the cripple out of his chair and carried him up the steps of the steel scaffold. The hangman fitted the noose, waited for a nod from the sheriff, then sprang the trap. Twelve minutes later, a small notice was tacked on the prison door. "Judgment by death," it read, "was this day executed on Généreux Ruest...