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Unit One
The Abduction
An adage says that adversity
is transient. The following allegory is an example.
Long, long ago there were two
couples that had no children. They adopted a boy
named Terry. They were affable to Terry and Terry
adored them very much. They lived an amicable
life and amassed affluence affections.
One day two bad men came the
village. They found Terry and accosted him: “Are
your parents at home?” “No, they went to drink
in the tavern.” terry replied. “Good!” alleged
one of them, “I’ve heard of an anecdote saying
that, there’s a bulk of ablaze antique treasure
hidden somewhere near the apex of the mountain.
Wish to find it out with us?” Terry was a boy
with agility. He was allured and acclaimed: “Wonderful!
I’ll affiliate you.”
Terry’s parents cannot find
him when they’re back. “Maybe you have alienated
Terry. He find you acrimonious and left. ” Said
the mother in anguish. “I’d not doubt his allegiance;
He may have been abducted.” replied the father.
Just then they received a mail
with an annex amalgamated with the text. In the
appendix there was an abridged letter: “Your son
is in our hands. We’ve abated his diet and annulled
his sleep. We want $10,000 for absolving him.
If you are amenable to our advisable request,
send the money to the aperture of the sewer allocated
north of the village within two days; If you adjourn,
you’ll never see him again!” the letter admonished
without any annotating. The letter was not abstruse,
but the abhorrent allusion drove them into agony.
Quickly they called the police.
Several policemen were allotted
to the case. They were adroit and adept in their
job. Soon they rescued Terry and treated him with
antiseptics. The couple felt abashed: “Thanks
to the police, their affinity to spec ops amazed
us. We’ll abstain drinking and accentuate the
agrarian work.”
The criminal and his accomplice
were accused for abduction but were acquitted
although proof was against them, because the avaricious
judge adopted their bribery.
(July
15)
Unit Two
Greed
There were two archaic countries called Jalania
and Cirathia long ago. Jalania was arid and bleak
while Cirathia arable. The king of Jalania was
an autocrat with belligerent bent who begrudged
Cirathia and belittled her armament, and he decided
to assail Cirathia.
Firstly, he sent an astute ambassador
in bleached apparel to visit Cirathia. The king
of Cirathia held a banquet and appointed him.
He avowed: “We Cirathians are bestowed by God
the ardent aptitudes. We are ascetic as to have
few assets and bequests. We’re also assiduous
and keep austerity.” “Sure,” the messenger beguiled,
“Your people have begotten great attainments,
and we want to barter with your country.”
On hearing that, the Jalania
king said: “Good, nobody can balk us.” And he
basted Cirathia with his army. They bereaved Cirathia
land and beset its capital. The Cirathia king
was astounded and berated: “You shit belied your
avid aspire for our land and blemished justice!”
All Cirathian officials were befuddled and began
to bicker with each other. Only one minister said:
“Although situation is arduous, we shall not apprehend
them. I’ve appraised them and asserted that their
ardor won’t last long. Everything is auspicious
and will get assuaged.”
The Jalania forces’ general
thought: “Our king is too bigoted. Ever since
I passed his audition and became general, my allegiance
has been basked in attrition. I’ve awed him, but
now filled with aversion. I’ll kill him and retire.
I’m apt to study barometer.” So he aspersed: “Our
king is avaricious and barbarous. We shouldn’t
bend to his arrogance.” Then he sent an assassin
and assassinated the king.
July
16
Unit Three
Prisoners of
War
Thousands of war prisoners were
kept in captivity in the bulky camp. They lived
in clutter and had to deal with chore. They must
show categorical obedience or else receive caustic
chiding. The guarding officers censure them very
often, as well as clamoring carnal punishments.
Some captives got bruise and clots all over. Male
prisoners lost their collaterals and female ones
fail to keep chaste.
They wear burnished
canvas, and rested in circumscribed room with
small capacity and caliber. They chafe each other
and brawled frequently. They were chary of moving
and can hardly budge. Their situations captivated
lots of reporters, who castigated the government
with cogent proof. However, the government gave
bombastic data and bragged about the conditions
in the camps.
After the calamity
of war ceased, large numbers of captives were
longing for the boon of brisk free life. According
to a clandestine bond between the two canny governments,
a process of exchanging captives will soon commence.
This is considered asng a cleft in the clogged
wall between the two countries.
July
18
Unit
Four
Laden’s
End
As Osama bin Laden’s forces failed
contending with the Northern Confederate, he had
to abandon the commodious capital city of Kabul
and conceal his trail inside the contour of large
mountains and caverns. His career comprises confidential
conspiracy, conspicuous terrorist assaults, Islamic
fundamentalist creed and contemptible crimes.
But now, most of Laden’s subordinates contemplated
and become contrite, while castigating him with
their conscience.
Three months ago, some conciliatory
connoisseurs of international affairs from UN
came to Afghanistan with cordial compassion to
the catastrophe occurring there, and consorted
Laden. They deem it contingent to arrive at a
congruity if Laden would concede. However, Laden
was credulous in his counsel’s words that the
constellation shows fortune to them. He was covetous
and contemptuous of his enemy. Confounded by conceit,
he craved for uniting the entire nation. Thus
he contemned the UN commission’s advice and convened
his troops for counterstrike.
Soon US corroborated that Laden
was the person who contrived the new attack method
of impacting skyscrapers with planes, and person
who conspired the concerted serial assaults in
New York. Laden cowered and constricted his mouth.
He controvert that he was consecrating some food
with condiment to the God in order to confine
the contagious disease in Afghanistan, and had
no time to organize the attack. But US ignored
his construing. They said that Laden’s story was
concocted and his credential was counterfeited.
Then they confiscated it and attacked his troops
with bombs that contaminated the whole country.
Laden confided to his congenial
officer with composure: “They won’t connive our
terrorism, any more than condoning us. We must
consolidate the forces, equip them with the counterpart
weapons of US army’s, and put compulsive death
to those infidels.” “You’re so composed! Let’s
conceive something optimistic.” The officer commended.
July 20
Unit
Five
Family betrayer
Maria was a damsel in a noble family that had
passed its culmination and fallen into decadence.
She was little defective, for he knew decorum
well and was deft at cuisine of desserts. She
followed her father’s decree and deferred marriage
year after year, her best ages detained.
One day, Maria’s
father designated her as a deputy to dispatch
a deleterious man who denounced her family and
depicted its defect to others. After she saw the
man, he declaimed: “You’re deluded by your culpable
father’s deceit. He’s a despicable person who
despoiled our property. He derided us and denoted
that we should work for him. I am the delegate
of all deceived people. We detest your father
in cynical manners and demur to him before the
deities. We live in dank cells and feel dazed
frequently, but we’re dauntless. We’ll keep deprecating
him until he deplore.”
What the man delineated
struck Maria greatly. Her deference to father
detracted, she said in a dejected mood: “I have
despised you poor people but now I’m deferential.
You’re right in decrying my father’s detriment
to you all. He deformed the truth and defrauded
me. I’ll curb my cursory task to put you into
demise with this deterrent. Also, I’ll detach
myself from my family.”
After some curt
compliments, the man said: “Thanks, I’ll go around
that declivity and dab the bell dangling on the
ceiling as a signal for us to escape.”
July
23
Unit Six
The
Arrogant Scholar
Aldaris is a scholar with many
devout disciples. He has been disseminating doctrines
that is said to be not having the most diminutive
drawback. He economizes his own life and become
emaciated. When he came to our city last year,
our domineering boss discerned him and invited
him to give us a discourse.
Aldaris was eloquent and began
dilating with elation: “What I want to elucidate
today is a problem which is long distained and
has dismayed many people. It distracts them all
the time and makes them downcast. That is: How
to effectuate the discretion in edifying your
disposition? ……” He devised lots of dispensable
sentences while eluding the important things,
thus digressed the topic and the lecture sounded
devoid of sense. What’s more, his dialects greatly
disarrayed the audience and dwindled the effectiveness
of his speech.
It was getting dusky and began
to drizzle. We all became drowsy and our boss’s
patience ebbed. He was discreet and didn’t want
to disfigure himself by forcing Aldaris to stop,
but he really disparage his speech very much and
cannot dissemble any more. Eventually, he said
in a devious way: “Your topic is discernible,
but it’s so dingy now. Let’s disband the meeting
and I’ll disburse your plane ticket back home
with discount.”
Aldaris became dismal at once.
He replied: “Do not dissimulate or disclaim your
real purpose. You divulged that your patience
dissipates. Well, if any of you can disprove the
topic of my discourse, you can displace me and
I’ll go home keep dormant. I’m so ductile.”
“Stop effusing your words filled
with discord,” shouted the boss angrily, “I’ve
dissected your topic and it embodies nothing.
Diversify its content, or we’ll efface them. We
diverge too much and I have to let you leave,
otherwise you’re doing nothing but embezzling
our money.”
July
30
Unit Seven
Great Archaeological
Discovery
An erratic instrument was exhumed
from an excavation of ancient epoch. It looked
like a pipe but was embroidered exquisite pictures
on it, and could still engender a euphonious sound.
As nobody in the country can enunciate what it
is, an archaeologist with special expertise skill
was enlisted from abroad.
Following the envoy, the expert
came to the expedient huts encompassing the spot.
During his expeditious esteeming, the expert was
completely engrossed. He exclaimed: “This is an
exotic flute which is the oldest extant one, and
all others have been exterminated in ethic migrations.”
Then he gave an exemplary play with the pipe,
followed by extemporaneous expounding to its structure.
Eventually, he extolled the importance of this
discovery, showing exorbitant etiquette.
The enrapturing local official
held a banquette on the archaeologist’s exodus.
However, the instrument’s value enticed the expert
and entailed his greed. He emended his plan and
wanted to encroach the flute. Thus he exerted
his eloquence and equivocated: “Sorry I’ve made
a mistake maybe. According to an excerpt from
a book enacted by my teacher, this instrument
is unworthy. Its value cannot emulate a common
flute.”
The official was exasperated:
“Nobody will endorse such nonsense excluding yourself.
Your crime can be neither extenuated nor exempted.
Expedite your steps and eschew us, foolish exponent.”
The archaeologist
was enervated and ran away as soon as possible.
Aug 9
To be countinue
Unit Eight
The Fox and the Chicken
The frigid winter and scarce
food supply famish many animals, including a ferocious
fox. He is almost forlorn because he has garnered
little food when the land was fertile, and the
flora is extraneous to his diet. He used to be
fussy and extravagant with his food but now has
to fetter his stomach and be frugal. “What a formidable
winter!” he gabbles.
Just then his eyes
flicker due to a fortuitous discovery. After ferreting
about the whole grassland fraught of snow for
fishy objects, he finally found a small finch
with fuzzy feather and fragrant smell. A chicken!
“Haha, facile prey!” the fox was exultant, “Hmm…She
looks so fatuous and feeble. But I shall not go
forthright, because the feud between foxes and
chickens will fluster or fret her, and foment
her escape. I must make her believe her foe through
frauds.”
After fitful garnishing,
the fox comes up to the fluffy fowl with a genial
smile on his face. He feigned that he is a gentry
with genteel speaking genre: “Hey, my fraternal
friend! I’m coming to extricate you from a disaster.
It’s not facetious. Your nest is too flimsy and
frail to be a fixture for living. It cannot foil
great gales coming soon. However, I can help building
a new nest with many fortes for you, which can
forestall water exuding. I just want to show my
genuine feat and won’t extort money from you.”
“Stop your futile
fraudulent figment. It’s such gauche farce.” Flouted
the chicken, “Look at the frowsy gash on your
cheek. You’re the fickle figurehead of the fox
clan who just failed in the factious fights.”
The fox cannot
gainsay the chicken’s words and left in frenzy
frustration.
Aug
11
Unit Nine
Generation Gap
Ted made a fortune and hiked
back his idyllic home in illustrious guises. He
wore a grand hat, a pair of gilded glossy shoes
and a girdle with glazed tip. All neighbors in
the gorge welcomed Ted with homage instead of
grudge, and he was gleeful as well as haughty.
Yet, Ted’s father, who used
to be humane, criticized him bitterly: “How hideous
you are! We used to be hardy and hectic. We’re
gregarious and never guileless. Now you made a
haphazard fortune and lost our virtues. Hearsay
says that you get your money by harrying passengers
and hewing trees. Somebody even imparted me that
you’ve committed immense homicide. If you’ve done
those illicit things, It’s surely ignominious
idiosyncrasy, and you’ll lose your imminent heirship
if you go on like that.” He humiliated Ted.
Ted imbibed some tea, groped
his match and ignited a cigar. “You’re too hackneyed
and grumpy,” he grumbled in a grouchy voice, “I
cannot gratify your obsolete ideology. You old
people used to live like ignoble cattle and illegible
grasses. You glean grain from fields and heave
them back in gratitude to the God. You gnaw dirty
food everyday, ignorance of hygiene. All my wealth
hinges on my gripping many chances and it’s unreasonable
for you to gibe me like that.”
The hubbub of haggling attracted
many neighbors who were heedless at first. Some
of them approved the son’s grievance while others
took it as heresy. The quarrel’s gist was generation
gap.
Aug
12
Unit Ten
Diplomatic Friction
A newly inaugurated impervious
US submarine with diesel impetus was taking an
imperative task near an insular navy base in Japan.
As it made its way across the intrinsic flows,
an inconceivable fish boat suddenly emerged in
front of them. The indolent captain was so imprudent
and inert that he turned the steer too late. It
was a big submarine with great inertia and the
fish boat was in an inept position. It was stricken
hard, and the influx of water into the boat’s
interior space caused the boat to sink in impotence.
The imposing accident incited
incisive diplomatic frictions after short interlude.
Incensed local fishermen were indignant and impetuous.
They incriminated the US navy for insulting their
nation. Some of them even instigated local governors
with inordinate incentive.
A group was set up to inquire
the accident. After some inquisitive inquiry,
they imputed the matter to the fish boat and tried
to act as the intermediary to intercede between
the fishermen and the US navy. However, the local
fishermen were insubordinate and intrepid. Although
they’re indigent and make livings on indigenous
products, they decided to indict the US navy.
Their action gained impassioned support and incessant
invocation from the mass people. They hoped the
insolent US navy could pay the indemnity.
The impassive governors, however,
feared being implicated in the trouble. They intimidated
the fishermen by instilling that, the US navy
had innate privileges, and insinuated that their
inflexible indictment was ineligible. But the
fishermen were indomitable and inverted the infusing.
The lawsuit began eventually.
All the crew of the submarine
was interrogated. Finally all the incredulity
dissipated: the intrinsic fault lay in the captain’s
incipient operation error. Although almost impeccable
in the past, there’s no impunity for him. When
the indented judgment text was announced, the
fisherman improvised an impromptu verse to mock
the government’s improvident waste of time.
Aug
13
Unit Eleven
Story on the Lawn
At 40°latitude, 110°longitude
there was a large area of luxuriant lawn. A river
meandered through the grassland, manuring it with
fresh water. A liberal girl lived there, whose
merits was her matchless beauty and irreproachable
ken. Her hair was lithe and her eyes limpid. Every
morning she would wear her laurel and lash her
sheep onto the lawn. The mediocre life elapsed
in lull for many, many years.
One day an itinerant nobleman
came to the lawn. He was authorized by an irrevocable
legislation to levy the place. He had malady in
his leg and had to limp all the time, and all
people jeered at his jolting languid muscle when
he came. Some children’s malicious mimicry to
his walking manner greatly irritated him.
As he saw the girl, his eyes
were filled with luster and his lust arose: “Aha,
a menial meek girl with fine malleable skin! She
reminds me of my newly-marital life.”
Full of malice, he kindled a
cigar and accosted the girl: “You’re such a methodical
girl with manifold talents. I’ve learned of a
maxim saying that, phoenix cannot reside on a
small tree, and I can liberate you from the leash
of husbandry. You should lease your sheep to others
and go with me to the maritime capital city whose
prosperity is lauded by all.”
The girl was not at all irresolute.
She replied in listless tone: “Look at the irreverent
smile on your face and the ugly ledge on your
leg. By meticulous observation, I loathe you.
Your maneuver cannot jumble my mind and languish
my alert.”
“Maligning!” shouted the nobleman.
After some liaison, many lusty
malcontents came to the girl and drove the nobleman
away.
Aug
15
Unit Twelve
The General Election
The quadrennial US president
election is once again muddling the multitude.
Parades with partisan motif fill the streets and
obstruct the traffic. Nocturnal TV programs are
monotonous due to the noxious orations. Both parties
have gained tremendous patronage from the opulence
of large businesses. It’s no wonder the greatest
ordeal to those politicians.
The Democratic Party’s candidate,
Gore, is an outspoken and overbearing man with
obstinate thoughts nurtured in a needy family.
He gives an offhand comment that the Republic
Party’s candidate, Bush, is a moron with morbid
brain. He outwitted the public that, if he wins,
he would modulate the policies, popularize obligatory
education and mollify the current economic depression.
Bush, although overdue for the
election, is a munificent person with nimble style
in his outfits. He obscures his own flaws and
evades Gore’s onsets. Instead, he frequently mentioned
the former president Clinton’s obscene history.
“I’m not the panacea for all problems, but I can
be palatable small dish for you to nibble. Oust
Gore from your tickets and support me please.
Our serious security conditions can be mitigated.”
Bush paraphrases his ideas.
As Gore overlooks many chances
and fails to mold his aspect successfully, his
negligence finally causes Bush’s victory. According
to the pact between them, Bush sets up his government
and begins to nominate his ministers.
Aug
16
Unit Thirteen
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was the peerless precursor
of India national independence movement as well
as a provident politician with prodigious probity.
Grown up in penury, he was a pious posterity of
the Indian people and had no prodigal penchants.
Fighting for the perennial independence
of India, Gandhi is propped by many followers.
He told them to keep placid and proscribed violence
which may pervert people, for he knew profoundly,
if that prevails, their prestige would be profaned
and the movement would fall in plight. As a result,
he kept placating his followers by plotting petitions
with percussions and pleaded with the British
colonists with propriety to accept their plausible
proposals. Local governors professed his process
permissible, and his minions proliferated.
As Gandhi’s prity to become
independent protruded and his profuse methods
of struggle protracted, the colonists were prodded
and pensive. They fear that the poise would be
broken and fights would pervade. So they prosecuted
Gandhi for pilferage of poultries and plunged
the plaintiff into the penal jail. The jail keeper
was prone to sympathy and made special food provision
for Gandhi by pecking the jail wall. Their precious
proximity was not perpetuated. Soon the keeper
was precluded from touching Gandhi and Gandhi
lost his preference.
A prolific playwright wrote
a play about Gandhi with pertinent topic recently.
In the prelude of the play he premised that Gandhi
was still alive. When the play was on, it precipitated
and the perspective of the city’s profile became
picturesque.
Aug
18
Unit Fourteen
The Lord and the Hermit
Once upon a time there was a
rapacious lord. He was relentless to his tenants
and quelled them by placing quotas to their living
condition. Soon he collected quantitatively great
revenue and lived in a radiate palace. He was
also renowned for his queer clothes.
One day the lord’s disease relapsed,
so he rallied his subordinates for help. One of
them said: “I’ve heard of a recluse who knows
regimen well residing nearby. Why not visit his
residence for help?” Another retorted: “Be prudent,
maybe it is only a rumor.” But the rash lord was
filled with rapture and ratified the visiting
plan.
On the next Sunday, the lord
purged himself, held a quaint rite and started
for the hermit’s home. They passed rugged rustic
passages full of paddles and the lord almost recoiled.
Finally they arrived. The lord felt disappointed
at the recluse’s reception, but he wouldn’t relinquish
the chance and talked to the hermit with reverence.
The hermit ruminated and reverted
to the main topic in a pungent voice: “I’ve heard
lots of your ravenous deeds. You retract the land
you’ve distributed to the farmers and order them
to redeem their land. You must redress your guilt
and rehabilitate their freedom. Reimburse their
respective debts and build refuge for them. You
can retain the residue of your property.”
The lord was reluctant to renounce
his wealth and be rent from his palace. He rebuked:
“Your advice is too reckless. I’m resolute not
to accept it.”
“Why so repulsive? You cannot
repudiate my words.” The hermit reiterated his
suggestion and its resonance echoed. “Remit their
taxes with rebates, or a riot is imminent.”
The lord again refuted. At last
he went back in remorse.
Aug
19
Unit Fifteen
Watching the Execution
It is reported that two seer
criminals were to be executed in the town center
today, and spontaneous spectators have gathered
around the sedate square in sporadic groups fore
fear of solitude. They skimmed the sardonic slogans
pasted on the walls about those social slags.
The air was solemn and sensuous.
Soon several policemen came
from the stall as speculated, shoving two criminals
saddled by shackles. As they walked around the
sloppy slope, people shunned them because they’re
thought to be sinister. Then the executioner began
to scrutinize the criminals that had been kept
in seclusion for days, his face steadfast and
his rifle shined with splendor.
The first criminal was a murderer
who had smothered a boy. The police was not sluggish
at all and pushed him forward without scruple.
As the executioner drew his sword and it slumped,
the criminal’s neck snapped, and his head was
severed from the body. Blood spouted from the
gush and sprayed onto the ground. Some watchers’
clothes were smeared and spewed at the terrible
scene. The executioner sheathed his sword and
shouted: “Next one.”
The second was a sly cheater
who obtained $100,000 through one solitary method.
He solicited: “I fear the savor of sword. Kill
me with a rifle, please.” “No, it squanders bullets.”
Replied the executioner with sarcasm. “You’re
too skimpy,” said the criminal in a satirical
tone, “please satiate my last will.” After some
squabbling he was satisfied.
The executioner fired at the
criminal’s spleen. Blood spurted out, like sprouting
flower. The criminal was still sober and felt
seared. The bullet singed his body and killed
him without much snag.
The police then gave the spectators
lots of sermon but nobody listened. I collected
a bullet shell and scooped some blood sediment
up from the ground as a souvenir, then returned
home without sojourn.
Aug
20
Unit Sixteen
Misery of the Negro Slaves
400 years ago, many European
colonists with supple hair went to Africa and
subverted the aboriginal empires. After the subjection,
local residents succumbed to the colonists. The
conquerors found them stocky and submissive. They
surmised that those tangible traits made them
suitable for strenuous work. So they shipped those
Negroes to America in order to supersede animal
labor.
During the 1600s, from African
plains to the summits, millions of Negroes tallying
the requirements were tied together with strap.
Their noses were transfixed and their faces tinted.
Then they were jammed into stout ships teeming
slaves thrust by sails and shipped to America.
While in the ship, they fed on tepid tenuous porridge
and stodgy corn. Stripped of all things, their
head thumped the deck and their noses tingled
while the ship waved. Such bad conditions were
not tentative, so they became torpid and tranquil
as well as susceptible. Surplus people were thrown
into the sea and were submerged by water. As the
slavers kept tantalizing them, Even the most temperate
man became sullen. Their touchy temperament caused
much strife and many ships strayed.
After they finally surmounted
all the difficulties stunting them and subsisted
until they reached America, they found themselves
suffusing the slaver’s farms to which they were
subsidiary. Their stingy superintendents stipulated
with them that, their job was temporal and would
soon be supplanted by more succinct work. It’s
their tact however. Everyday they ate their sustenance
when the bell tolled. It was tacit in the synopsis
of the contact that they can never be free. Their
thrift and torment transcended all that in human
history.
When their deeds transpired,
the colonists’ reputation got tarnished. International
organizations sublimated the topic of fighting
against slavery and began to tackle the problem.
Aug
21
Unit Seventeen
The Perilous Journal
Common tourists virtually never
go upstream the Amazon River too far. I’ve been
venerating those valiant adventurers as well as
wistful and longing to become one, until last
year, I joined a group of archaeologists who were
trying to unearth archaic vestiges, such as wares
polished with varnish, from a site deep in the
rainforests.
Several trotting mules tugged
our boat. Our leader, Jimmy, was an upright, witty
man with unshaken will. He wielded the steer warily
and kept vigilant. The water trickling underneath
our boat formed trifling waves. The uncanny scenes
and unruly animals on the banks aroused our whims.
It was dawn and everything around
was vague. Suddenly the boat was wagged sharply
and we woke up in turmoil. There was a huge whirlpool
ahead, which generated vehement vibration. As
we waddled toward Jimmy, he veered the boat with
not a whit of hurry until we escaped the turbulent
area.
Still in trepidation, we got
onto the bank and launched a campfire with twigs.
We took off the wet clothes and wrung them out,
then dried them on the fire through ventilation.
I made a wry smile because I was wearing an unbecoming
coat in vogue. We then composed a verse to praise
Jimmy’s wit and valor.
As the incident vexed us, our
faith wavered and our courage waned. Somebody
tried to wheedle Jimmy into aborting the adventure,
but Jimmy vetoed the suggestion. “Unless unanimity,
I won’t agree with such unseemly advice.” He vindicated
his decision.
Aug
24
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