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Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson cautioned that Diefenbaker's vision might endanger relations with Canada's closest neighbor and best customer, the U.S. But Diefenbaker's speeches, vibrating with evangelical fervor, wrung cheers from Newfoundland fishermen who still use Elizabethan turns of speech, touched off one of melting-pot Winnipeg's wildest political demonstrations. And most surprising, it galvanized French-speaking Liberal Quebec into returning the biggest Tory delegation (50 of 75 seats) it has ever sent to Ottawa...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
...time was the early 1930s. Dust-parched, drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were...
...many men emerge from the ordeal spiritually dried up ... The desire for finding out what had not before been known, the imaginative urge to reinterpret-these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely...
...latest issue for concern was the dog in the Russian satellite. "I think it's simply horrible," one of the ladies said, and wrung her hands abstractedly. "That poor puppy, whining, lonely, and petrified by the dark. And then they poison her." She wrinkled her nose...