Eighteenth-century French gastronomes labored for days to perfect exquisite banquets; our Yank microwavery can produce equivalent gastric distress within seconds.

Strether didn't, as he talked, absolutely follow himself; he only knew he was clutching his thread and that he held it, from moment to moment, a little tighter; his mere uninterruptedness, for five minutes, helped him to do that.

After more than a week of hard fighting, in which American, Greek, Turkish, Filipino and Thai troops have joined in a common effort, they have demolished the “iron triangle” in the rugged hills of central Korea, which formed one of the keys of the whole Commnuist defense line north of the Thirty-eighth parallel.

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...