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Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...
They bloom, they wither, their leaves fall...
...Hollywood, where marriages wither even faster than reputations, a spoiled little rich girl named Barbara Hutton dropped Husband No. 3 last week. The whole thing took four minutes. She would have made it in three, if she had not taken time out to pose for the news photographers...
...seems to me that the opposite implication can be found in the analogy, namely, that the Emperor is to be destroyed if we want to destroy the present anachronistic Japanese society. The word "disintegration" a la beehive seems to scare Mr. Grew. Obviously all Japanese would not wither and die when the Emperor is disposed of, as the hive does when the queen dies. What would happen...
...name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...