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...version would please those who want accurate scholarship, phrased so that it would read well aloud. It would disappoint those who expected debate. Said a collaborator: "Out of the thousands of variant readings in the manuscripts, none has turned up thus far that requires a revision of Christian doctrine...
...oculist, perhaps; but not by Webster. On p. 1827 Reader Woolf will find "persnickety" as a variant of "pernickety...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
...Sand Hill, N.C., men apparently well from tropical diseases, acquired in an average of 18 months overseas, play a variant of ring-around-a-rosy - walloping each other with a loose boxing glove. There is a terrific din of shouting. Their six or eight hours of heavy exercise a day (pushups, pullups, hikes) seems to bring on relapse, thus winnowing out those who need more treatment. One man has had 22 relapses...
...word, which has variant spellings, is Hollywood onomatopoeia for lovemaking in the "Latin" manner...