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...plucking off the worms, squeezes a new measure of realism out of the miracle. And his disciples are minor masterpieces of winy characterization. They are no heroes; Peter's nickname, for instance, is "Windmill," for his susceptibility to every change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like a eunuch's." The one strong man of the lot is a red-bearded giant named Judas Iscariot...
...lightly, and it is evident that it takes them very seriously indeed. It even mentions a year--1963--by which it plans to see at least first-step compliance with the Supreme Court's integration ruling in every affected school district. The foreign policy plank is made of equally stout stuff, giving the singularly honest assurance that "if meetings at high level offer prospects of success, we will be there...
...Deputies to form his government. As the neo-Fascists assembled, a gang of Red-led picketers charged into the Piazza de Ferrari. Genoa's celere (riot police) were waiting for them. They circled around the rioters in jeeps like Indians around a wagon train, clipping heads with their stout billies and gradually narrowing the crowd down to a hard core. Special riot trucks doused the demonstrators with automatic hoses...
...Even so, the heavy Finisterre drives well to windward, boils downwind with her centerboard up. More important, because Finisterre's lines are far from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...
...next one emerges from her tweeds with a less sympathetic expression. Diana married one of Britain's mighty brewers -Bryan Guinness, stout feller-but got divorced and married English Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...