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...Lloyd protested: "There was no prior agreement between us." Despite their words, there was plenty of evidence to show that the two attacks were planned in collusion ("orchestration" was the French word for it). In this conspiracy, France was the instigator, Britain a belated partner, and Israel the willing trigger...
...crowd was still nervous and trigger-happy, and newcomers were astonished at how many hands would come out of pockets clutching hand grenades when the cry "Panzer" went up, as a T-34 rumbled into a street, or when a few shots hammered through the air from no one knew where...
...corral. They call her Lowney. Her star pupil, and still the star boarder at the Handy colony, is James (From Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...
...nation lived through crises aplenty in its turbulent, trigger-happy youth. Writing of the 19th century Uruguay that he knew as a boy, William Henry (The Purple Land) Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay...
During a rehearsal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Britain's trigger-tempered maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, an irascible 77, soothed himself by trying to make music on a sheng, an old wind that few modern Chinese blow good. The cluster of fluty pipes had been presented to Beecham, himself no mean player of the piano and trombone, by touring orchestra members of Red China's Variety Theater...