“ He made a swirling motion with a chain-braceleted wrist. The wine mounted the inside of the glass in a sheet of gold, fell undulating back. ”
- Kennedy Fraser- Copy
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“ Let the key guns be mounted, make a brave show of waging war, and pry off the lid of Pandora's Box once more. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
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“ Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945… ”
- The Nation- Copy
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