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...also said that people with freckles and moles, and the swarthy, disappear as they grow older. They are not among those with the long life spans...
Will suddenly disappear from my anxious heart...
...said Truman, "if the Republicans don't wake up and reform it wouldn't surprise me if they never did win another national election." Some people, he went on, go around saying that the voters ought to support the Republicans this year lest the two-party system disappear. "This is an appeal to charity . . ." declared Harry Truman. "No party deserves to be kept alive just out of kindheartedness or charity...
...Social Welfare: "Despite propaganda that all the social ills have been legislated out of existence, we know that the realities of life are still tough, harsh and disheartening for many Americans. These ills cannot be abolished by the mere passage of a law, but they will disappear in an America whose men & women understand that not one of us-whatever his position-can stand alone, and that all of us, bound in spiritual unity, are injured by any injury...
Thus German spies combine meticulous exactitude with an unfailing rigidity of method. During World War I, for example, they made the brilliant discovery that a message written in acetic acid on the outside of an egg would disappear, once the egg was boiled, into the inside. The Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before...