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...asked an old farmer if he had heard of the Marshall Plan. Indeed the farmer had. "Before Marshall," the old man said, "there was no hard road near my house. I could only get 20 kilos on my donkey's back. If I put more on him, he sunk into the mud. Now I can put 30 kilos on the donkey, thanks to the Marshall Plan...
...invasion from above. Rather it shows how petty the squabbles between nations really are, and more important, that these squabbles have blinded our thinking. This is a frightening movie, not because of any startling photography, but because here we can really see to what depths the world has sunk...
During the closing scene of Brattle Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" three centaurs marched in with candelabras of Roman candles. Amid the fireworks, Puck told the audience to think it "had but slumber'd here," bade it good night, and sunk through the stage...
...rounds on points. But somehow his legs had lost their old spring, his long lefts failed to connect. Turpin shook off the punches that did land, and began crowding in. Hooking when he should have jabbed, jabbing when he should have hooked, his head sometimes a craning target, sometimes sunk between his shoulders, he moved onto the offensive. In the seventh, Robinson was plainly tiring; in the eighth and ninth, Turpin took charge...
...Navy Retreats. The Utah, sunk in her old age by Japanese bombers, lay rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor when, in 1947, the Navy decided that Mrs. Crawshaw was entitled to a partial pension. She was not satisfied with a halfway victory, and continued to fight. In 1948, she forced the Navy to list Crawshaw's death as an accident...