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...Admired Senator George Bender's St. Patrick's Day necktie-a deep green foulard bearing the presidential seal-and promptly traded his own tie (brown, with a trace of green) for Bender...
...required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous point appeared to dance wildly and irregularly. Was it only that the pencil which I held as a marker trembled in my hand? . . . Then the trace appeared on the photographic plate . . . clear and big and unmistakable . . . Mike was a success...
Weed or Wayward Man. Williams has included the major common variants used in different Latin American countries, often had to trace English and Spanish words back to their Latin origins to make sure they are exact equivalents. Instead of translating hierba merely as grass, he lists dozens of botanical variations as well as a few related colloquialisms. Mala hierba can mean weed or it can mean a wayward young man. Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup...
...seal oneself from the exigencies and rhapsodies of the present; and 2) the way to extricate oneself from such decadence is to search for a positive and present love. Undoubtedly, this theme may have present and cosmic significance, but I do not believe it either necessary or possible to trace its symbolic overtones. Its nearly platitudinous magnitude defies any precise application to immediate world problems...
...many of the junior G-Men, for example, know how to lift a decent fingerprint from a dirty fragment of glass? Certainly very few--and fewer still could trace the box of matches found beneath a charred board back to the store where it was purchased...