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...Hinton meant the U.S. intervention] is looked on very much as we would look on Chinese armies driving to the Rio Grande. [But] always I found people, even total strangers, friendly to me, an American. They wanted to know all about Lin Ken, 'who freed the slaves,' and Lo Sze Fu (Roosevelt), 'who wanted one world...
...Bolshevism in 1916. Thirty-eight years later, his words still guide the policy of his heirs. For six weeks this summer, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and Canada met privately in London with representatives of Russia, headed by Jacob Malik of veto fame. The hope was that, freed of the necessity to strike postures in public, they might find some solution to the problem that besets all mankind: fear of H-bomb destruction...
...Freed from Trouble. As a future tragedian. Leopardi began life with every possible disadvantage in his favor. His mother, Contessa Adelaide, made piety seem more a crime than a virtue. When children-her own or other people's-were stillborn or died in infancy. Mother Leopardi "experienced a deep happiness . . . inasmuch as [they] had flown to heaven, while their parents had been freed from the trouble of bringing them up." Of Leopardi's father. Conte Monaldo, it is reported that he once took off his pants in the street and gave them to a beggar...
...giant diving bell containing a drilling outfit worked by remote control, are current among the offshore oilmen, but the responsible heads of the oil companies point out that drilling is only a part of the oil-producing business. The wells must be kept cleaned out; the oil must be freed of water, gas and sand, and brought ashore in pipelines. The crews must be housed and fed. All this is enormously expensive, with boats plying continually among the well platforms, special bases to service the boats, and radars to guide them in foggy weather. When an offshore field is fully...
...first scene of Demetrius is the last scene of The Robe: the condemned centurion's bride sends the robe to her Christian friends. In trying to hide it, the freed slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) scuffles with a Roman soldier and is sentenced to be trained for the arena in a gladiatorial school...