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Senator Taft fought vigorously and well for most of four days. In the clinches he pulled several clichés ("we will just pour $6 billion down a rat hole"). But his infighting was good: he had carefully studied the involved Bretton Woods proposals, which many a Senator obviously had not. At times, Senator Taft had Administration proponents stuck on fine points of the agreement's $8.8 billion monetary fund and $9.1 billion international bank structures (TIME, July...
There used to be a weed which was a pest and which would overrun lawns and pastures, etc. It was called "dogfennel." The favorite joke was that the way to get rid of dogfennel was to pour whiskey on it and the Baptists would...
Voices from the back benches: "Tres bien pour la petite difference] Hurrah for the little difference!" French Assembly members, male & female, cheered lustily...
Thus in 518 A.D., the Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
...popular prints engraved by native artists. Within a few years, Parisian poets and painters were ransacking Japanese packing cases as though the crumpled prints inside were an accidental answer to an occidental prayer. For the prints were a pat expression of a slogan that was sweeping France: art pour l'art-art for art's sake...