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...only 40 feet wide; its four inadequate railway terminals are choked even by holiday traffic. Water reserves are inadequate, fire-fighting equipment is antiquated. In the Philippines the U.S. also had a tinder-box capital (see p. 77), but the U.S. had enough bombers to make a death trap of Tokyo...
...second period on, Peabody, Gardiner, Pfister et al rushed the Cadet passers dizzy, and even twinkletoes Miller had his bid for fame, when he snared the wobbly heave of a harassed Army back and capered towards the Cadets' goal for three yards before falling into an Army tank trap...
Journal has been a publishers' booby trap...
...over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...
...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...