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...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...
Happy to help. Poetess Moore forthwith suggested "The Ford Silver Sword" (a rare plant found only in the crater of Hawaii's volcanic Mount Haleakala), also the word Hurricane combined with a series of swift birds-Hurricane Hirundo (swallow), Hurricane Aquila (eagle), Hurricane Accipter (hawk). Slightly alarmed at the Moore deluge, business-wise Wallace warned: "It is unspeakably contrary to procedure to accept counsel-even needed counsel-without a firm prior agreement of conditions (and, indeed, to follow the letter of things, without a Purchase Notice in quadruplicate and three Competitive Bids). But then, seldom has the auto business...
...House of Lords and chief of Britain's atomic energy program. By freeing Makarios, wrote Salisbury in his letter of resignation, Britain had surrendered the initiative to the Archbishop, "and he will be able to edge us along from point to point. We shall have a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads...
...veteran of the New Guinea campaign, Fotouhi set out to convince the Japanese that he had come not only to teach them about the U.S. but to learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio, and a few days later the whole family took part...
...fish and the dragon's tremble; I vow by the mountains and the grass, and the grass and the trees are startled." It is said that our great patriot Admiral Yi Soon Shin had this engraved on his sword during the time he defended Korea from Japanese aggression more than 400 years...