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...about to occur and a new world were to be born." Said he: "I suggest that while the protective forces are on the physical alert all other residents of Westchester declare a spiritual alert between the warning siren and the all-clear signal so that persons may, in solemn unison, lift up their hearts in prayer for the safety of our armed forces and civilians alike in a mighty plea for victory." In the area's surprise black-out this week, prayers will be led by clergy of all faiths over the local radio station...
...peoples exist by preference on a diet of hamburger steak." Still more reliable are freaks, the more nauseating the better. At Flushing their most stunning attractions were: a man who held up his socks with thumbtacks, another who could pop out his eyes like marbles, "either singly or in unison," another who lifted weights on hooks passed through his eyelids...
...gleefully into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic at Revere Beach. They won the bet, but admit ruefully that they are not forming any "Polar Bear Club." "Once is enough," the two Weld Hall dwellers, to whom temperatures in the lower registers are nothing new, chorused in shivering unison...
Eight tan, faultlessly dressed, glossy-haired men arose and shouted in unison: Chai-yo! (Hurrah). They shouted it five times. For the Minister announced that, no matter what his Government said: "I have decided to work from now on for one thing and one thing only-the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand." The ornate, red-carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly...
...three minutes these three eights surged down the course, and at the finish their relative positions had not changed a fraction of a millimeter. With all 24 men pulling in unison, Bolles said that a shot could have been fired between the seven and eight men without anyone's being injured. And so the College championship still remains to be settled...