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...held Viet Nam. The second group, to which these repatriated prisoners belonged, was ravaged by dysentery and malaria; the marchers got only 800 grams of rice and gruel a day, with occasional dried fish and peanuts. There were no medical supplies, although many of the walking wounded still bore shrapnel within their bodies...
Elias gave him sermons and advice Instead of song, which simply proves once more What things are sure this side of paradise: Death, taxes, and the counsel of the bore. Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend, Bores we have with us even...
...drill grinds no metal against teeth or gum tissues. Instead, a liquid containing fine particles (usually of aluminum oxide) is forced against the tooth by ultrasonic vibrations (29,000 per sec.) of the Cavitron's tiny steel tip, and these particles neatly bore into the tooth without noise or pressure...
...busy Mr. Truman had his most historic week since leaving the White House. First, he hopped up to Milwaukee to accept a $5.000 Steinway grand piano (for the library) from the American Federation of Musicians. On a convention platform bristling microphones, while some 1,100 professional musicians grinned and bore it, Amateur Pianist Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through...
Their enthusiasm was great, but their funds were low, and their rockets behaved as might be expected of basement-built contraptions. In 1932, the German army gathered up rockets and experimenters and bore them away to secret laboratories Twelve years later, the great V-2 rockets slanted down on London at 3,600 m.p.h...