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...last week the great mass of rock cracked decisively and fell, with awful deliberation. The roar of its slide woke the villagers in their beds, a few fishermen in their sloops offshore, and the operator in the power station who threw on his switch and lit the two villages and the moving mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving...
When Mr. Insull woke from a nap he was irritated to learn that the Turks had forbidden the Maiotis' departure. Next day when the ban continued he was alarmed. Turkish police came out and demanded that he go ashore with them. Indignantly he refused, and handsome, swarthy John Ioannis Mousouris, master of the Maiotis, hurried down from the bridge to protest volubly in Greek. Sadly puzzled and somewhat dismayed, the Turkish police retired to their launch...
...flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima, now Minister of Commerce and Industry, woke one morning to find his name and Traitor Takauji's spread across the pages of Japan's press. His enemies had dug up the article and reprinted it. Millions shuddered as they read. Deputies in the Diet shouted that Nakajima who had condoned treachery to the throne...
...interpreting facts. He tells the story of how Lenin, at a committee meeting in early revolutionary days, encountered general opposition. Wrapping his head in his cloak he told his comrades to wake him when they had argued themselves into agreement with his plan. An hour or two later they woke him, said he was right...
Shrewd, the Government had counted on Bore Car to disperse the Opposition. Slyly, Government Deputies kept their seats, passed the Constitutional amendment by a sudden snap vote, sent it to the Senate before the napping Opposition woke...