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...until the last moment, the film goes soft when all but one of the gang are captured. Fleeing England, Baker sends Pettet a note via canine messenger. Its message: "Goodbye." The final footage shows him walking up the New York docks under the superimposed title: THE ? END. A bit precious, since the Germans got there in THE ? BEGINNING...
...Precious Commodity. Probably the only thing that can prevent its getting done would be an overwhelming upsurge of war weariness within the U.S. McNamara carries in his pocket a recent editorial from the London Economist pointing out that the President is in danger of losing a precious commodity-"patient public support for the whole idea of a limited war." Agreed Maxwell Taylor: "This country is being tested as it never has been since the Civil War. We impatient Americans like the Hollywood solution where the good guy hits the bad guy, and it's all over. We want...
From Pious to Pornographic. Other craftsmen turned to such materials as silver inlays, precious stones, mother-of-pearl and exotic hardwoods to produce intricate designs and motifs that ranged from the pious to the pornographic, often decorating the hidden inside pieces of the guns with motifs to match designs on the outside. Like Europe's great furniture makers, the best gunmakers also turned out pattern books of designs, which were slavishly copied by other craftsmen for decades. In the 1740s, for instance, Russian court gunsmiths were still using 1670 French designs to ornament a pair of gold-plated...
...context of creation and death and new creation that seemed to start with the Book of Genesis and engage the support of the higher sciences. Both the small sounds and the indifference belong to the cosmic flow that includes all things. "Sleep and dying are neutral," and man is precious matter that life shapes and death changes into something new. Even all that is worst in man can ultimately be absorbed...
...potato vacation." Girls stayed home to help their mothers through a pregnancy or the canning season. Yet even though the potbellied stove never quite coped with the Montana winters, only temperatures under 45° below could close the school. "I felt as if each day in school was precious to the children," Miss Blachly recalls, "and that I must fill it to the brim," since a few months each winter was "all the education they were going to get before taking up their adult lives...