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...given to undue optimism, tartly observed: "We have the situation well in hand . . . The major difficulty of the French command in Indo-China is to come to grips with the Viet Minh. They are like a swarm of flies buzzing around a tree. If you shake the tree they fly away in all directions . . . The Viet Minh tried to win a cheap, spectacular success to compensate for their failure in the vitally important Red River delta, where they have been unable to gain any substantial advantage." General Navarre, in a special message to his troops, said that he "fully expects...
...Olympic ski jump, Vag watched the American team practice. There was something devil-may-care about these skiers. Whenever one landed in a heap of snow at the bottom of the jump, he would shake it off and bravely limp to a group of enthralled girls. Later in the evening everyone within hearing distance of the Olympians knew about the terrific headwinds that had cut fifty or so feet off each one's final jump. Vag felt foolish after he said he had not felt a breath...
...published article, De Gasperi had written: "We must shake off our indolence and sense of depression . . . The lack of a solid majority has so far compelled this government, no matter how friendly, to ask for support from both the opportunist Right and the demagogic Left." Aside from the specific criticism, what angered Pella was the word "friendly," which seemed to indicate that De Gasperi did not really regard it as a Christian Democratic government...
...Shake, Shake, Shake." It was Grandma's sister Celestia who first suggested that painting might be fun for her. Grandma tried, and found it was. "I painted for pleasure, to keep busy and to pass the time away," she recalls, "but I thought no more of it than of doing fancy work...
Grandma's next show was held at Gimbels department store, which invited her down for the opening. Grandma had not been in Manhattan for years; she later described her visit: "Oh, it was shake hands, shake, shake, shake-and I wouldn't even know the people now. My, my, it was rush here, rush there, rush every other place-but I suppose I shouldn't say that because those people did go to so much bother to make my visit pleasant." A sizable audience gathered at Gimbels to hear Grandma talk about painting. Instead, she told them...