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...work went on. Flanders and his men restored a bomb-clogged deep-water well, installed a purification system, built gasoline storage plants. When a bluff stood in the path of one runway, they simply blasted it flat. In all, they reshaped over four million square yards of rock and coral...
From a delegate of one of the 50 other nations, who huddled on the sidelines while the giants fought, came a tactfully worded explanation for the conference's failure. Said he: "The British are stubborn, but disagreeably so. The Americans are stubborn, but charmingly so." This hard rock of stubbornness had, time and again, tripped up the cautious diplomatic steps to find a compromise on the big question of an all-powerful global air authority, the smaller problem of the "five freedoms of the air" under which global flying would be done. Actually, the withdrawal of Russia-occupying...
...threw a rock and it bounced off'n him like rubber," said Orville. "If somebody gets ate up I reckon you'll believe it." But a few days later the Johnson children were ordered back to school, this time by a skeptical county judge...
Rome established the primacy of law, created a thriving economy, spread the advantages of universal citizenship from Gibraltar to the Crimea, and made the family the rock of civil life. Yet the law was overthrown by barbarians, the international Roman economy succumbed to a renewed provincialism, and the old Stoic families took to licentiousness and ceased to reproduce themselves...
...week's end, Prime Minister Smuts was taking long walks on the veld around his farm near Pretoria. For him the question was whether to veto Natal's ordinance by an Act of Parliament and rock his Government, or let the ordinance stand and perhaps rock the Empire...