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...Willow & Oak. Historian Thomas Macaulay penned a hard judgment on the founder of the Cecil family: "Of the willow and not of the oak." Bobbety is of the willow, pliable when he needs be to fill the job of Tory leader of the House of Lords, but he is also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly...
...enter the Age of Tension, man . . . comes closer in his methods of building to the forces and mechanics of nature than ever before. The oak tree holds its own against the gale only because its roots are strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...
When Halleck was finished, Dan Reed rose to reply. His face flamed anger, his bony jaw jutted, Chairman Allen offered him a chair, but Reed snapped: "I'm still able to stand." He stood, straight as an oak, while he boiled over. "This [rules] committee has no authority . . . EPT is nothing but an unlawful bandit cutting the throats of industry . . . This [hearing] may be the destruction of representative government. If that's true, this is no place for me." Reed's voice rose to a passionate shout. "What have I done in my 35 years that...
Three hundred and fifty porters (at 49? a day) divided up the baggage into 50-lb. packs and struck out, in two caravans, toward the valley of the Sun Kosi. The track lay through rhododendrons, oak trees and patches of fern; then the country roughened, and three great ridges rose before them. From the first, Chyanjma-la. the leaders looked north and saw Everest face-to-face-a hunchbacked Atlas with the sky of Tibet on his back. At last they entered the valley that drains Everest itself...
Julius entered first into the presence of the ugly, brown-stained oak chair. As he walked through the glaring light of Sing Sing's white-walled death chamber, the three newsmen allowed as witnesses noted that his mustache had been shaved off, that he wore a white T shirt, and that his feet were shod in cloth slippers. The prison chaplain, R^bbi Irving Koslowe, intoned the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want . . ." Just before the chair, Julius seemed to sway. Guards quickly placed and strapped him in the seat, then dropped the leather...