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...begins to rain, and Salisbury thinks to himself, "not likely anyone will come after me in the rain." It is then that he reaches Forsyth Street and his island of light, and when he finds a beacon of hope in the mission school's dogged good work, you still smell his fear not far away...
...being outsiders looking in," writes Leona. Yet it is precisely the Schecters' visitors-to-a-strange-planet attitude that makes their book succeed. On virtually every page are anecdotes and vignettes that constitute a witty, indelible portrait of the Soviet Union. Sweat, garlic and tobacco are the "characteristic smell of Moscow." Shoppers use no checks or credit cards; only the privileged in this "classless society" use scrip to buy luxury groceries at bargain prices. Three bathers in Armenia show off portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin tattooed on their chests...
...stepped then out of the dark blue sea, and walked over the dry land, till he came to the great cave, where the lovely-haired nymph was at home, and he found she was inside. There was a great fire blazing in the hearth, and the smell of cedar split in billets, and sweetwood burning, spread all over the island. She was singing inside the cave with a sweet voice and she went up and down the loom and wove with a golden shuttle...
...wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most valuable resource, more valuable even than oil and forests and minerals In Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power of food in economics, politics and the pursuit of peace. In those 16 Central States with 1,198,848 sq. mi., 223,260,000 acres are in crops worth $54 billion a year, almost twice as much as the U.S. consumes. This treasury of food is a resource...
...many as Don Cheney, but more than Richard Nixon, because his armpits don't smell," came the reply...