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...piling up mileage. His princess does not get angry: she "looked through scarlet lace." A soldier does not feel regret: "hands were wringing in his brain." Snowy's leg is not suddenly weak: it goes to "laughing gristle." Other Llewellynisms that would flood any ordinary carburetor: "A quick thrust of pity alchemised her feeling to a silt of motherly impatience"; "she rolled over, drinking coffee...
...lack of Andover ice. Other activity scheduled for the Lynn icehouse forced the teams to cut the contest down to 12 minute periods, possibly accounting for the low scoring. To date, the freshmen have made a practice of wearing down opponents and pouring on the big scoring thrust toward the end of the game...
...from Monopilo Kastoria: "First they hanged the priest, then they cut off his mother's hands, and then they ordered us to follow them. What could we do?" In Albania her eight-year-old girl and five-year-old boy were taken from her and a rifle was thrust into her hands. Tapping the weapon, the rebel capetdnias said: "This is your husband, this your child." Kleoniki was forced into the battle of Vitsi. She deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas' abduction plans...
This was a bold parliamentary thrust. The Fourth Republic's constitution provides automatic dissolution of the Assembly and new elections if two governments fall on votes of confidence within a period of 18 months. Thus if Bidault's cabinet went down, the succeeding regime would be able to threaten the deputies with dissolution every time they failed to come to heel in a confidence vote...
...Race (by Garson Kanin; produced by Leland Hayward) is one more thrust at the hard, cold sidewalks of New York. With a colorful set representing "a piece of Manhattan," and a friendly loafer and shrewish landlady providing an antiphonal chorus, the author of Born Yesterday has portrayed a squalid world of heels and down-at-heels, of furnished rooms and finished lives. The central story, which sounds the most comforting note, begins as Boy-Meets-Girl in Act I, ends as Boy-Mates-Girl...