Here are members of the Council on Foreign Relations who are, or were, top officials in Americans For Democratic Action: Francis Biddle, Chester Bowles, Marquis Childs, Elmer Davis, William H. Davis, David Dubinsky, Thomas K. Finletter, John Kenneth Galbraith, Palmer Hoyt, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Herbert H. Lehman, Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Here are some of the policies which the ADA openly and vigorously advocated in 1961: Abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Congressional investigation of the John Birch Society Total Disarmament under United Nations control U. S. recognition of red China Admission of red China to the United Nations, in place of nationalist China Federal aid to all public schools Drastic overhaul of our immigration laws, to permit a more "liberal" admission of immigrants Urban renewal and planning for all cities Here is a good, brief characterization of the ADA, from a Los Angeles Times editorial, September 18, 1961: "The ADA members ... are as an organization strikingly like the British Fabian Socialists....
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Jim, who had as usual never calculated upon such a turning of the tables, threw off his head—his assumed one, of course, and, leaping from the stile, cried aloud— "Oh! Tom, don't shoot—don't shoot!—it's only me—Jim Smith!" Down dropped the gun from the sportsman's grasp.
— from Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 by Robert Seymour

Subsequent editions and translations, though often numerous and important, are usually not cited unless special mention has been made of them in the text.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

And Madame Flamingo's eyes quicken, and she steps round us, now contemplating us suspiciously, then frisking her hands beneath her embroidered apron, which she successively flaunts.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Look then, whether other men who have authority over us never command us some business which we dare not but do, and therefore often do it full sore against our wills.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

It was hard pulling along the deep sandy ruts, but the Comet uttered no complaints until suddenly with a groan that was almost human, his wheels sank hub-high in the sand and he could go no more.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

Under no circumstances use sealing-wax for postal purposes.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

They would refuse a "pass" until necessity compelled unequivocal submission.
— from Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot