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...strode in, looking neither to the right nor the left." In conference the Führer displays manic mannerisms. He pushes back his chair, smites his thigh with frustrated rage, thunders ultimatums, broods in angry silence over folded arms. He inspired "such physical repugnance" that Sir Ivone hated to shake "his podgy hand," and at one point, though knowing it to be "pusillanimous," asked to be excused from attending another session with Hitler...
Philosophy May Shake Faith...
...Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense, as they might meet their tutor, say, or President Pusey...
...Gazette. In the state capital at Frankfort, Waterfield had learned fast from a master teacher, joined Chandler in ownership of the new Indian Hills subdivision, to which their highway department conveniently ran a state road. Aside from fighting down the scandals, Waterfield's toughest campaign job is to shake loose from the increasingly unpopular Happy and still get the nomination...
...Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly...