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...juices, it is a rancid abhorrence of people who coldbloodedly set out to do unprovoked good to other people . . . Any person who has ever looked to me for good works has only himself to blame, for my motives always have been obviously retributive . . . and any good I may have wrought has been purely coincidental...
...Human Welfare State. Even the cockiest delegates were a little awed as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas told them what labor had wrought. Said Douglas: "The human welfare state is the great political invention of the 20th Century. Labor was its prime promoter ... All groups in society-farmers, business, and the professions-were its beneficiaries...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...return, at 34, was another piece of evidence that big-time boxing was on the ropes. In Manhattan, Sport Columnist Jimmy Cannon, an old fight fan, got so wrought up about it that he predicted: "The fight racket is perishing . . . and in our time will be an obsolete sport...
...message, though lengthier, was not on the same plane as the first telegraphed message-Samuel Morse's "What hath God Wrought...