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...succeeded to the post that became a family fiefdom during his father's twelve-year tenure, ordered top-level hearings on charges that Wilson was "bringing discredit" on the union. When 300 of Wilson's men showed up carrying protest placards (sample: "Get your hands off our throat"), the hearings petered out. Anything but subdued, the San Francisco firebrand planned to run for international vice president...
...launched a crusade extolling its virtues in terms usually reserved for such timeless Americana as the Gettysburg Address. Though Years of Lightning can now be seen by all, it is largely for the moviegoer who measures the magnitude of an experience by the size of the lump in his throat...
...such specialists and on his own preferences, Goddard brusquely reversed Sadusk in a drumfire series of decisions which drastically restricted the use of long-acting sulfa drugs, attacked the inflated advertising for Peritrate (a painkiller for angina pectoris), and flatly forbade the further manufacture of over-the-counter throat lozenges containing antibiotics. He also promised a congressional committee that FDA would promptly tackle the herculean task of checking the efficacy of 3,000 drugs marketed between...
...catches every kink and twitch of a natural misfit who can only sense progress when he is swimming against the stream. In his world of fantasy, he is brutal, primitive. To the world at large, he looks rather more like an adolescent giraffe perpetually swallowing the lump in his throat. The real world gains on him when, armed with several lethal weapons, he confronts his rival, "a greasy art dealer," and hoarsely croaks: "She married me to achieve insecurity-you can't take that away from her!" The point is almost proved by Vanessa's tantalizing ambivalence...
...trois with a Belgian couple in London, dictating his diary to his host's wife and patting the heads of her nine children. Finally discharged from the consular service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke: leaving an estate of $1,800 and a story in progress on his table...