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...strains at such gnats as "hell" and "damn" but is willing to swallow the camel of antireligion. The only trouble with religion in Russia is that the Russian constitution permits freedom of religion, but in the same breath guarantees freedom of antireligion. . . . Atheists should have no more freedom in the sale of their wares than dope peddlers, and for the same reason...
Roads of Escape. Inflation-battered Fulano de Tal, the common man, was so weary of cramming into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
...seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell his yarn, Mexican beisbol was fearsome: he said darkly that "they" opened his mail, tailed him with detectives. Then came the last straw: they made him play first base...
...determined how the disease spreads; it is as likely to strike on Park Avenue as in Hell's Kitchen, hits harder in suburbs than in cities. There is no proof that polio is spread by flies, drinking water, milk, swimming in infected waters...
...crew that outnumbered the British party, got the engine started, cast off the British towlines, lowered the British flag, restored the Stars and Stripes, and ordered the British off the ship. They got off. According to an R.A.F. pilot who flew over the scene, "it looked like a hell of a battle going on down there." But the Elizabete's second officer said later that there were "only black looks and curses...