McCoy. It was also pretty clear
Plenipotentiary. He did not necessarily dislike the man—Winant had twice
Ambassador, but knew nothing beyond that. The first impression Frade had of Ambassador
[THREE] As the staff car carrying Generals Almond and Howe started down the road beside the runway, McCoy paused long enough to wonder where they were going, then turned and motioned to Jeanette Pries...
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When you really get serious about some female, Clete, take a good look at her mother. That’s what your beloved will look like in twenty, thirty years.
Bible said was that if you prayed, the Good Lord would point out a Christian man’s path to him. Nothing was said about that path being easy.
It’s easier finding a virgin in a whorehouse than an honest politician.
Intelligence is far less the gathering of information than being able to find the two or three tiny useful bits in the mountains of useless data.
Better to remain mute and thought the fool than to speak and confirm it. Again.
Himmler rarely made little jokes, and when he smiled he reminded Canaris of a funeral director who had just sold an impoverished widow the most expensive coffin he had for sale.
Everybody, sooner or later, stubs their toe. When that happens, the thing to do is swallow hard and go on
But he just knew how to fly. All they had to do was explain to him what the propeller was doing, spinning around like that.
And it also says, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ McCoy said. And that ‘he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
Personally,
The behavioral scientists at the University of California, after extensive research, concluded that the best human material to train to be a pilot are classified intellectually as cretins.
That, finishing, That’s what we were doing in Vienna, giving a Russian female NKGB agent, who also works for Mossad,
His cylinder head temperature right at 215° Centigrade. That’s what the book said was the most efficient climbing attitude, and Major Parks flew by the book. As they passed through 12,000 feet, he put...
Gentlemen, he said, I am a simple soldier. When I was a cadet at Norwich, I was told, and I believed, and my subsequent career has proven true, that the essence of command is to make sure the troops h...
Three kinds of men. There’re the ones who can learn by reading. And there’re the ones who can learn by observation.’ He paused to let that sink in. And? Payne said. ‘And then there’s the rest of them...