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...dust is thrown from comets and circles the sun in their orbits. The pieces range from the size of marbles to that of pin-points. If one is heavy enough, the gravitational pull of Jupiter draws it from its path; otherwise it spirals slowly into...
...telegram said there was no choice but to "break out of the Kremlin trap designed to pin us down in Asia, leaving Europe and the Middle East Defenseless...
...what? Conceivably the Chinese were awaiting a further buildup of their forces before a major push. In the face of the Korean winter and the strength of the U.N. armies facing them, this seemed unlikely. A better guess was that the Chinese in North Korea were there to pin down supplies that might otherwise be used in Indo-China, and to extort political concessions from...
Even if their only objectives were to defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...
...forte is fireworks, not illumination. The keynote is sounded in the first five minutes, when the soldier exclaims: "What a wonderful thing is metaphor." Fry, in the last analysis, pins his real faith on words-by no means a bad thing for a writer to pin it on. He sometimes loves words too well: The Lady shows a streak of the clever undergraduate, the babbling drunk; it plays practical jokes on the slopes of Parnassus. Like much poetry today, it turns abruptly colloquial, with calculated bathos; at other times it bellies out with defiant bombast...