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...great achievements were accomplished not with high spirits and eloquent hopes but with stubborn demands, clouded suspicions, dubious cheers. More curiously still, the man who won most in the five days was the man who indifferently let EDC go to its death, and who did not hesitate to threaten the whole painfully contrived structure with last-minute disaster. Others had talked of "glorious visions" and wailed over the intransigence of the French Assembly. Pierre Mendès-France used that intransigence as a tool, and talked not of sentiments but of realities...
...colleagues (many of whom went to jail with him in the long struggle for independence) and the Indian constitution (which Nehru did much to frame) are standing in Nehru's way. Congress Party moderates prefer more neutrality than Nehru now seems to envisage; some Cabinet ministers even threaten to resign if Nehru elevates the unpopular Menon to the Foreign Ministry. The constitution has a "fundamental rights" clause, which guarantees private property from seizure without good compensation...
...first, the Crimson continually pressed Smith until, with 15 seconds left in the period, Welss scored again, this time on pass from sophomore left inside Hank Holmes. The second five minutes saw the frantic Williams team threaten goalle Lindsay Fischer again and again, but the Crimson defensemen, Hugh Sargent and John Hadik, cleared the ball each time...
...this season, Bill Morris has been the Crimson's number one runner, but each time he barely edged out Don French by inches. Al Wills, the slowest to reach top condition this season, may also threaten Morris today...
...prejudice before they could use the dead to reveal the secrets of life. Ghouls such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language. Even today, in some Southern states, mothers threaten naughty children with "the night doctor will get you"-a reference to the ante-bellum breed of burkers...