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...jury had already returned 58 indictments against 25 people, had brought the cold sweat of apprehension springing to the brows of many a high-placed gambler and politico...
...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
Bathed in sweat, his head reeling, he huddled at the foot of the altar until the church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...
...phone rang; the caller was Sophocles Venizelos, a Liberal who had previously gone along with Tsaldaris. He had changed his mind. The happy faces began to bead with sweat. There was nothing to be done; the candidates went home...
...this morning two freshmen clad only in dressing gowns will take a last glance at their Military Science 1 notes, and will retire to the drawing room of an apartment high above Park Avenue in New York to take their final exam, the same final which their classmates will sweat out in Memorial Hall...