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...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...
...Czech's powerful service worked like a charm. After that it began to sputter; Drobny's weakness has always been inconsistency, a failing which prompts Prague's Communist-controlled press to call him a bourgeois when he loses, praise him as the standard-bearer of "our people's democratic republic" when he wins. Schroeder swept easily through the second and third sets, misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title...
...popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
Last week, King George's Swan Keeper Fred Turk, with four assistants, dutifully and warily rounded up six squawking swans from the Thames at Cookham, packed them off in pairs to hiss and sputter on the odoriferous Tigris at Bagdad. The London News Chronicle muttered sarcastically: "Might help, though...
...aware that the Western powers would not agree to treaties that gave Russia control of central Europe, had another end in view. Molotov had come to make propaganda, mostly addressed to the Germans. The climax came on the 16th day at the table. Molotov started off with his usual sputter of accusations against the West. Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction. . . ." Then he again demanded a clear statement of Soviet policy. Said Molotov: ". . . When the time comes. . . ." Said Marshall: ". . . The time has come...