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...trouble with Antitrust or the union, with the customers or the stockholders." Thus most speeches are prepared in committee, with lawyers, admen, public-relations men at hand to ax anything that could possibly offend anyone. Their rule of thumb: "If in doubt, be vague." The average speech is wrung through five to ten drafts, gets worse each time...
...Linda said had been taken at gun point, remarked that she seemed "perfectly tranquil and at ease." Conceded Linda: "Well, I didn't react." Did she consider the defendant capable of killing a human being? After some hesitation, Linda said, "I don't think so." Lawyer Floriot wrung from Linda the admission that she had taken a new lover since André, a young Belgian who worked for the Palais des Nations, and he left implicit the suggestion that if the jealous Jaccoud had been planning to kill anyone, it would have been the new lover...
...five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because it was creating a profitless drain on foreign exchange. "We are riding the tiger of industrialization and can't get off," said Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari. Severe restrictions on imports, and new taxes on wealth and expenditures wrung outraged cries from the business community. There were strikes and food riots from Calcutta to Madras...
...quite as skillfully as Novelist Hammond Innes did in the 1956 bestseller on which this film is based, and the result is a sloshing good scupperful of salt water and suspense. Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has kept the story going full ahead, and has wrung a remarkable amount of histrionic blood from one of cinema's best-known stones, the face of Gary Cooper...
...serve fish? 'To clean fish: Remove scales that have not been taken off. This is done by drawing a knife over fish, beginning at tail and working towards head. Incline knife slightly towards you to prevent scales from flying . . . Wipe fish thoroughly inside and out with a cloth wrung out of cold water, removing any clotted blood which may be found adhering to the backbone. To skin fish: with sharp knife remove skin along the back and cut off a narrow strip of skin the entire length of back. Loosen skin on one side from bony part of gills...