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...Boredom. The McGill experiment tries to measure the malfunctioning. The students generally sleep during their first few hours on the soft bed. Awake, they grow more and more restless. They squirm, whistle, sing, talk to themselves. They welcome any interruption, as when they are asked over an intercom to do mental arithmetic...
Morrison's one commandment is to get the job done on time, even at the expense of the 10% profit that he tries to make on big jobs. When his estimators make a mistake, Morrison never tries to squirm out from under. When the boss of a job wants help, he does not go to Boise; Morrison or one of his lieutenants hotfoots it out to the job. Otherwise, Morrison gives his project managers all the elbow room they need...
Each shell tells the defenders that Gen eral Giap is not through. Day & night, Communist soldiers squirm out of the jungle across the ground before the fortress to dig foxholes and assault trenches. Each time a sentry gazes out beneath a star shell, the Red shadows and the chink chink of digging seems to come closer. Outnumbered three to one, the defenders of Dienbienphu wait calmly this week for the assault they believe is sure to come...
...ceiling to get a grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...
...quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy victim squirm behind the Fifth Amendment...