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...starchy English diet, gobbled calorie-packed fudge and ice cream between meals, swam three or four hours every day. After an evening of gin rummy, she turned in promptly at 9:30. As the weeks wore on, with no slackening of the rough waters, Florence would stare gloomily out the window at the spiteful grey...
...London night life goes on in the small private clubs from about 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. After this, if you want to go on drinking, you either go to a private party or retire to your hotel room and stare moodily at the wallpaper which, in London, has the habit of staring back...
...Republican adviser to the State Department fixed his vanilla soda with his habitually solemn stare. A year ago, in a spell of concentrated writing, he had delivered himself of this exhortation: "It is time to think in terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom, and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism . . . In 1942 . . . we were not thinking about how to save our necks, but how to save freedom. We need more of that spirit today . . . In the vast areas of Asia and the Pacific, we have no adequate policy, largely because China, always until...
Last week, back in his State Department office, Dulles carried on his crusade. He fixed an interviewer with his solemn stare. "Some days," he said, "it looks as though I'm just living over again the spring of 1919. The same hatreds and jealousies are all operating. I don't know whether this peace will work or not. I do know the other type is certain to fail. If you have a 100% chance of failure, I think it is wise to take a 50% chance of success." Against the 50% chance of failure, Lawyer Dulles stacked...
Since Vienna is 100 miles inside Russian occupied Austria, a bus ride from the outlying airfield to the city goes through Soviet territory. The bus ride along the only road open to the Western powers seems like a zoo on wheels. People on the road stare in with worried faces, and the children run beside the bus for a better glimpse...