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...Bossism." "No milk for Hottentots." All the threadbare, empty rhetoric, spouted in the name of the "American Way" by the same coterie who have, at the price of disunity, taken the public by its ears and dragged it away from the cesspool of a global war to get a whiff of the Administration's "sewer of bureaucracy." Visions of the 1944 election are crowding the nation's war and peace problems out of the minds of these political snipers...
...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...
...bombing raid on San Francisco.] Sure, exhilarated at the prospect of getting a splash of lewisite-even a feeling of elation at the prospect of seeing arms, legs and torsos flung into the treetops. You guys make me sick . . . almost as sick as I'd be after a whiff of noxious...
...slavish devotion of the movies to authentic local color and the realism of modern acting have naturally whetted general impatience with the fact that the Met's scenery continues to be predominantly mid-Victorian and its acting in the good old Italian tradition, pure ham with a whiff of garlic. These are real objections that nobody would try to deny, but they have nowhere near the importance for opera that they would for spoken drama. Opera's source, and its principal excuse for existence, is the wonderful physical satisfaction of hearing a well-trained human voice, an appeal not basically...
when "he was interrupted by a piercing shriek from Shelley." The author of Rise like lions after slumber grasped "his ruffled head between desperate hands" and staggered from the room. "Pacified with a douche of cold water and a whiff of ether," he explained that he had been staring at Mary, suddenly remembered a story about a woman who "had eyes instead of nipples, which taking hold of his mind horrified...