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...said John A. Wolter, flinging open the door to the vault, which was cool and quiet as a tomb. "And this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas Jefferson...
...those squint-eyed bastards will get a lesson they'll never forget," he screamed. "Who do they think they are? We'll kill those yellow sons of bitches." He raved on, calling the Chinese all the names he could think of, names in which the Russian language is rich...
...Higinio lashed back at turn. The shaft of his now lifeless member lay bloody....His banal blond angel face with its tight puckered mount, withheld the radiant smile it normally squandered so freely in all directions, except when he was trying to escape the perverse chubby little squint-eyed Zoe, who chased him around urging the other small cousins to take up her terrible accusation. "Higinio has no pathos....Higinio has no paths...
...rocking of the ship, and waited for the chief to come and tell us the plan of the day. I would try to guess, before going topside, if long shadows would lie in front of me on the grey hull, or if the early morning sun would make me squint at the glare off the blue waves. Of course there was no way to tell; the ship just steamed in circles, in the same area of the Caribbean, for 22 days...
...explain who is doing what to whom, and why, in the four-team limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...