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...land is so swampy that after World War I surplus dealers reportedly disposed of several French 75 mm. cannon by removing their wheels and carriages and letting them sink into...
...relocated by us and their protection assured." And he vowed to deport the 400,000 Algerian Moslems who dig the ditches and clear the streets of Metropolitan France- and whose remittances keep some 2,000,000 of their relatives back home alive. "Naturally, we should cease immediately to sink in a henceforth hopeless enterprise our resources, our men and our money. The fact is that, to say the least, Algeria costs us much more than she is worth...
...indicators, it just isn't in the deck. For one thing, the population explosion goes against it; most of the children being born into the world are not and never will be Christian. The population's mobility goes against it; a mobile Protestant population can't sink profound religious roots. And the intellectual communication necessary to Protestantism is being drowned out by the bombardment of mass media-a sermon is lost in the other words of the week...
...hero sees his deliverance in a $10,000 check his mother gets from the company that insured his father. But Mamma won't allow "no liquor stores," which is what he wants to sink the money in. "Man!" he screams, "I'm a volcano ... a giant surrounded by ants!" When Mamma takes $3,500 and plunks it down on a house, the giant blubbers so pathetically that she hands him the rest. With boundless enthusiasm, the hero hands the wad to the first con man he meets. But in the end, with a sudden, improbable access of intelligence...
...fiancee, "I can't marry her--pushes in the bottom of chocolates." Of his former wife, he laments that he could never muster the nerve to tell her she had a delicate beauty, like white porcelain: "She'd say, 'White porcelain? You mean like the kitchen sink?'" His wife tells a veteran movie actor that she "feels like Katharine Earnshaw...