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...when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second danger is that the flame of the idea will be confined to Harvard; that the committees will stop short of every state and endowed college from Boston to Los Angeles. If they never forget that their movement is in pitiful infancy until they achieve such a scale, there is some hope for idealism. The proposed...
...Senate side, Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, erupted warlike clouds of cigar smoke, breathed a kind of phony flame without heat. The Senate majority bumbled along without effective leadership...
...textile making, where they help dyes to penetrate fabrics quickly and evenly. Wetting agents also aid the moth-and flame-proofing of materials...
...fleeting taste. Flame from the gun stabbed the dusk and in Kahului mongrel dogs howled and ran for cover. A shell crashed ashore, In the dun-colored houses along Kahului's waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage...
...never forget. If you looked into Peabody's eyes off the field they were open and friendly and, set in that boyish face of his, reminded you a little of a baby's. But once the whistle has sounded, those eyes contracted into slits, a sort of green flame seemed to burn in them and you knew you were up against a man who wasn't fooling. I hope I never find myself in a trench with fellows coming at me with bayonets. But if I ever do, I want to have a guy like Peabody with...