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...soft-spoken native of France, with eyes that pierce like a well-thrust foil, Peroy has amazed, taught, and endeared himself to Harvard fencers for the past twenty-three years. Student don't go to the Indoor Athletic Building just to fence, they go to fence with Peroy. If he coached high-jumping, they claim, they would switch to that. Modest as he is, Peroy is forced to admit that "when the boys found out I was retiring after this year, they started to lose interest in fencing...
...Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys was at hand. Five minutes before the train was due to leave, U.N. Czech Delegate Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova came breathlessly galloping down the platform of the cavernous Gare de l'Est, thrust a Cellophane box of orchids into Vishinsky's hand...
...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...
...their planes, they turn into the wind and steam at high speed. But even with a stiff breeze whipping across the flight deck, attack bombers and jet fighters often need a large and cumbersome catapult to boost them up to flying speed. And on a hot, calm day, the thrust of this giant slingshot is barely enough to toss them aloft...
Strollers on sidewalks give them leave To thrust, and pick a way around them...