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Gill said her desire to help the poor at times conflicted with her intelligence work. "I walked a razor's edge for four years," she said...
...intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...
...family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor blade to inflict physical suffering on herself, and they were trying to stop her. We left the funeral and drove back to Saigon, hardly speaking...
...Senator Charles Mathias claims that Congress is so narrowly concerned with each single piece of legislation that it ignores a broader perspective and fails to notice when it is "at a Rubicon, facing a great constitutional watershed." Correspondent MacNeil agrees that the legislators "live, like many people, on the razor edge of right now. They are parochial in time; they lack a sense of the past or a care for the future...
...days, but then the modest supply ran out. Their stomachs gnawing, the half-frozen members of the group finally made a dreadful decision. They hacked off sections of the dead bodies, thawed them on the warm metal of the aircraft, sliced them into small pieces with a razor, and ate the pieces raw because there was no fuel for a fire. The choice of cadavers was circumscribed: no relatives, no one with injuries that might have become infected...