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...slew a red-tape dragon last week. The dragon was called "layering." This is how it worked: if a toiler in WPB's vineyard wanted to get in touch with an Army procurement man, say, he was expected to write a memo which filtered through layers of top executives up and over to the War Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions...
Firstly, your writer ignored completely the role which the KKK had played in organizing the attack on the Negro families. The riot was by no means a spontaneous uprising, but upon instruction of the Michigan Grand Dragon of the Klan...
There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...
...DRAGON SEED-Pearl S. Buck-John...
...Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers...