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Malenkov left his lieutenants to spell out the damage in detail. In an orgy of breast beating, they reported: ¶ Stockings, underwear, hats and footwear-"completely inadequate." ¶ Textiles of all sorts-"insufficient . . . badly dyed, with flaws." ¶Furniture-"unsatisfactory." ¶ Women's dresses-"poor." ¶Bed linen-"production is lower than...
...accused his court-appointed lawyer, a black-browed young army colonel, of slipping a copy of the defense plan to the court, and he punched the surprised man on the arm. Instantly, the lawyer leaped up, extracted a copy of the Koran from his breast pocket, and on it swore he had done no such thing. By this time Mossadegh was off on another tack, while the lawyer sat stiffly unhappy...
...enemies broadcast pictures of Mary "almost naked, wrinkled and uncomely, suckling Spaniards at her breast, and round about, the legend : Maria Ruina Angliae." There was truth in the legend, for never had England sunk so low, militarily and financially, never had she known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French...
...rare visits to his mother, Danny is treated to more grim realism and the reader to Author Farrell's small-fry prose: "Danny didn't like it, seeing his new baby brother being fed at Mama's breasts . . . When he was a little baby he did that, got milk from Mania's breast. It almost made him mad. Why did God make it that way? It was like oysters. Oysters looked like milk that would make you maybe sick if you ate them. He couldn't look at oysters...
...Yale meet last winter Hawkins swam in so many events that he was beaten at his specialty, the breast stroke, by a tenth of a second...