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...more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson-or somebody identified as "T. S-"-says, "You mean toss it in the well and see the kind of splash it makes; follow it into the high grass...
...stage they look a little like a guards regiment on parade. They march on from opposite wings in cadenced step, and at times all 106 of them sit down in a single movement. Seated, they sometimes look to the casual observer about as animated as the tenants of a wax museum. But the appearance is deceiving. The Leningrad, now on its first tour of the U.S., is one of the world's great orchestras...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes...
...society-or even aristocracy-her husband represents another. For Winston Guest's mother was a Phipps, and the Phippses are a dynastic family-a ruling house represented by a trust, which takes care of all the family finances down to their bills for shoes and ships and sealing wax...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight...