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Churchill denounced meticulous governessing. As he said "governessing," Churchill, who for all his age and greatness has never outgrown the small-boy look, stared hard at Cripps who, even in his youth, had the thin lips, the stern but not unkindly eye of the typical governess. And there was a further likeness: Cripps has always had the deep conviction of all good governesses that they know best...
...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...
Favored to finish last in the nine-team nonagonals at Princeton, the Crimson surprised everybody including itself by grabbing eighth place with a point total of 162, just one thin point behind Navy...
...China some 900 years ago, there lived a thin-faced little man with a mandarin beard named Su Tungpo. According to Biographer Lin Yutang, Su Tungpo was "an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...
...Clauswitzian mind who devised the three-thin-red-line master plan remained in modest anonymity last night, but he must still remain the leading candidate for the annual "November miracle" football accolade...