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Goggling eyeglasses frame a swollen nose section above the round exhaust valve (see cut). The canister of protective chemicals is attached directly to the facepiece, eliminating the hose. Cocked on the left cheek, the canister is well out of the way, allows easier use of the rifle...
Senator O'Mahoney's rock-bottom argument was that, even if the industry is lily-white today, the Bailey-Van Nuys bill would be "a charter from Congress to do what they please in the future." Tongue in cheek, he also suggested two nullifying amendments to the bill, designed to make State regulation as effective as Federal antitrust procedure...
...self-sacrifice," from General Dwight Eisenhower. On her O.D. blouse Major General E.S. Hughes pinned the first Soldier's medal awarded a WAC. Then, though the regulations do not prescribe it, towering General Hughes unbent in the middle, leaned down and planted a kiss on the glowing cheek of Private Maloney...
...mane slicked for the occasion, rose to open the Great Debate, prepared to defend his Resolution pledging the U.S. to participate in the affairs of the postwar world. But Connecticut's hardheaded, independent Senator John Danaher demanded the floor. John Danaher, his Republican tongue bulging large in his cheek, wanted to propose an amendment, denning word by word the vague terms of the Connally measure. Items...
...most biting, satiric anti-war crusade of them all. These were the confident college youths who knew their elders had botched the last war and the peace; they would not fall for the hollow gag of trying to make the world safe for democracy. With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed...