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Only the "savages." the forest Indians, remained human. Fawcett came to love their primeval sweetness and wisdom. They track their game by scent. Fawcett recorded, as an animal does, and call it to be killed with strange, alluring cries that the creature cannot resist. They fish by lacing the water with a caustic sap called solimán, that stuns the fish but does not poison their flesh. Fawcett also solemnly accepted the story that the Indians know of a plant whose juices dissolve metal, and even make stone soft and workable...
...private enterprise means anything ... it signifies the right of the individual ... to express himself, to venture and risk along new lines of endeavor, but equally ... to oppose and resist trends, political or educational, in favor of more traditional values which he believes to be more fundamental than the policies of the numerical or political majority . . . The function of [the independent school] is to keep alive and flourishing this element of critical independence in our national school system...
Passing Show. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Charles Coleman, arrested a third time for automobile theft, told police: "When I see a new car, I just can't resist...
...Jenner Committee began its second set of hearings here, five University professors were among the signers of an advertisement in yesterday's Boston Herald which urged "every American who treasures our heritage of freedom" to resist the destruction of liberties by congressional committees...
...fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...