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...Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
...exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen-dorph, how often...
...only a spatter of applause. A Red delegate in the side-aisle flicked a paper at Arthur Horner, who answered by smoothing back his hair. Thereupon the side-aisle comrade tried to prevent the motion from coming to a vote; but the anti-strike resolution was carried...
...chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began to pepper the newspapers with a spatter of angry letters...
Broadway had its usual spatter of April showers...