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Thus a Churchillian "shortfall" corresponds to a Washington "slippage," which is the deficiency in the "shortfall." In short, someone had better pin down "shortfall" before it furthers Anglo-American misunderstanding...
...after lunch. Meals for the whole day were cooked early in the morning, to keep government planes from spotting smoke. Man, those Huks had a pretty high-class outfit up there. Enough arms and medicines, acres of farms, plenty of bread, even carabaos. They had weddings and dances and pin-up girls. The leaders wore good clothes and their fingernails were manicured...
Repository. In London, doctors relieved a patient's persistent pains after removing from his stomach: a razor blade, a piece of porcelain, a steel file, a lady's hair clip, a double-six domino, a key, a knife handle, a pin, a pen, two stones, two nails, two broken knife blades, three matches and four pennies...
...picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad in a flesh-colored bathing suit...
Four Seconds. At that moment a man in uniform broke from the crowd. Before anyone had time to stop him, the man ran to within a few feet of the official group. He fumbled wildly in his pockets; no one guessed that he was pulling the pin of a hand grenade. Exactly four seconds later, above the sound of the bugles, there was an explosion. Five men fell to the ground: General Chanson and Governor Thanh, mortally wounded, died within the hour. Two other French officers were seriously hurt. The fifth man, his abdomen ripped open, one hand...