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...mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...
Shaffer hesitated. Then, while a policeman named Leonard Conn covered him with a Tommy gun, he jumped up on the truck's framework, lifted the canvas which shielded Daniels. The youth had five pistols and three rifles beside him. But he called, "Don't shoot! Tell me what to do!" and climbed out, trembling...
...That we should organize collective security within the U.N. framework...
...approved aid to Greece and Turkey, authorized ECA by overwhelming majorities. It took the major inconsistencies out of the Truman Doctrine and placed it within the framework of U.N. It insisted that China should receive at least a small share of anti-Communist aid. Both Senate and House members took their responsibilities seriously; over 200 of them abandoned vacations to trudge over Europe on their own investigations...
Cast in the form of a Senate resolution, it reaffirmed the U.S.'s determination to base its policy on U.N. as now constituted, but to work for gradual revision of the veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union...