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I wormed my way through the fawning, neck-craning, many-shaded mob of political henchmen and obsequious petitioners into the sacred hushed precincts of Panama police headquarters. A paunched "Spigoty" with a shifty eye behind large bowed glasses, vainly striving to exude dignity and wisdom, received me with the oily smirk of the Panamanian office-holder who feels the painful necessity of keeping on outwardly good terms with all Americans. I flashed my badge and mentioned a name.
I wormed my way through the fawning, neck-craning, many-shaded mob of political henchmen and obsequious petitioners into the sacred hushed precincts of Panama police headquarters. A paunched "Spigoty" with a shifty eye behind large bowed glasses, vainly striving to exude dignity and wisdom, received me with the oily smirk of the Panamanian office-holder who feels the painful necessity of keeping on outwardly good terms with all Americans. I flashed my badge and mentioned a name.
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Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily of into South America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Canal Zone, Uncle Sam, Pedro Miguel, West Indian, Bas Obispo, New York, Gatun Lake, New Gatun, Lieutenant Long, United States, South America, Avenida Central, Corporal Macey, Old Fritz, Railroad Avenue, San Francisco, Central America, East Balboa, Naos Island, Old Timers New!
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Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily of into South America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bachelor quarters, station commander Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Canal Zone, Uncle Sam, Pedro Miguel, West Indian, Bas Obispo, New York, Gatun Lake, New Gatun, Lieutenant Long, United States, South America, Avenida Central, Corporal Macey, Old Fritz, Railroad Avenue, San Francisco, Central America, East Balboa, Naos Island, Old Timers New!
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