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...Wrung Dry. "Imitation after imitation of Miss Bowen's magnificent novel went into exercise books - stories of 16th Century Italy or 12th Century England marked with enormous brutality and a despairing romanticism. It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject." At 14, a story had made Graham feel what most children learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey...
...Doud (who had joined him at West Point) into his Constellation and flew to Washington in muck and driving sleet,* landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House to lunch, to give Eisenhower a chance to say what he had to say first to his Commander in Chief...
Barely a few days before, NATO deputies and defense chiefs had settled the sharpest issue: German participation in a Western European army. From France they had wrung assent to German regimental combat teams of 6,000 men each; in turn they had agreed to the French demand that these units be absorbed into divisions commanded by non-Germans...
...bought him a farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done, he slowly wrung out a lean, spare and personal idiom...
...took him to the Conway hospital, 19 miles from Myrtle Beach. There he died. Next day, city, county and state police refused to say a word; but the case was too hot to hush. As newspapers began digging into the story, Myrtle Beach's tourist-conscious resort owners wrung their hands over the threat to their trade...