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...cultural institutions" and "excellent" schools. The captions also mentioned the "well-carpentered" houses, city library, and a nursery "somewhat comparable to a U.S. nursery." Nowhere did the picture story mention that the area Salisbury was describing was in the heartland of what he now calls a "horrible stain on the face of the Russian soil and an indictment of the Russian conscience...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...
Hester is afraid of woodchucks, but the drive is hardly under way when she lets a third party kiss the blackberry stain off her lips and finds she likes it. But it is when Hester goes into an abandoned church with Matthew Avered and tries to seduce him that the real trouble starts...
...nobody is sure what-will replace the present equipment in University rooms. In the meantime, four Kirkland House students are testing the various alternatives. Metal desks and wooden ones undergo the daily wear of cigarette butts and feet. Bookshelves feel the load of heavy Government texts. Tables withstand the stain and strain of punch bowls...
...regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy to erase. Like most of her ancestors, Frederika firmly believed that monarchs should rule their countries...