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...taxed a far stronger and more politically wholesome nation. The U.S. insisted-quite rightly-that France make an firm promise of independence to the Indo-Chinese states. This enraged some influential French figures. At the same time, the U.S. was encouraging the French to resist Red aggression to the utmost. The two U.S. pressures on a weakened France had the effect of asking it for sacrifices in an area where, the U.S. insisted, France's responsibilities must soon...
...colored girl who passes for white and is pregnant. Agatha's only real function in The Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby is born, they have become mad enough to set the whole bush in flames...
Thye wrote Bicks, "I assure you I will do my utmost as a member of the Appropriations Committee to obtain an adequate appropriation for the continuation of this very worthwhile program...
...with the new defense budget, which increased funds for the Air Force, reduced expenditures for the Army? Paratrooper Ridgway hedged, hesitated and then gave his answer: "When a career military officer receives from proper authority a decision ... he accepts that decision as a sound one, and he does his utmost within his available means to carry it out." Nevertheless, Ridgway proceeded, in highly correct form, to say that he thought the U.S. should have more power on the land...
When the Lampoon's Great Hall became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...