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...cube of ice and slice of orange, and fill with club soda...
...from the too-near presence of a strange nurse, but then more and more slowly. Her eyes, fixed on the baby, expressed both desire and regret. The same expression can be seen on the faces of polite children who, at a birthday party, too quickly refuse a second slice of cake...
...help the California oil industry. Since California wells can't keep up with consumption, oilmen are pumping their wells so hard that they are clogging the pores in the oil sands, thus endangering the future yield. By offering to ship the first barrels for 60? and promising to slice that down to 50? when his volume goes up, Glasco expects to chop a dollar in transportation costs off every barrel that now goes by tanker or rail...
There, Rakosi began applying his famed salami tactics: "Demanding a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice." While the rest of the government was dominated and run by the Smallholders and the Socialists, Rakosi demanded and got for his party the Interior Ministry (and thereby control of the police). Then his police trumped up charges against the Smallholders and Socialists, one by one, in two years eliminated them entirely. Though Rakosi's-Reds never won more than 17% of the vote in free elections, they took over the government...
Last week, on Hungary's warmest summer day, sweat gathered on Rakosi's bulging, bald head and poured down his round face as he took the last slice of the salami. The puppet Hungarian National Assembly, which usually meets for a few dutiful days twice a year, held a special session and crowned Matyas Rakosi Premier of Hungary. Appropriately, Rakosi was clad in black...