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...prove it, he led the U.M.W. convention through the hoops in Cincinnati last week. Appropriately, the meeting began with a fist fight...
...southern France the Allied fist had struck deep into a surprisingly flabby belly. For weeks the Germans had seen the blow coming. Committed first to meeting the threat from the Normandy beachhead, they waited for the blow from the Mediterranean as if rooted in helpless fascination...
That afternoon, at a secret caucus, an emotional Phil Murray addressed P.A.C.'s delegates (from 28 states). In his low, Scottish burr, thrusting his fist forward. Phil Murray said: "Wallace . . . Wallace . . . Wallace. That's it. Just keep pounding...
Durham itself was divided. The City Council stuck by its power plant. One veteran member shook a gnarled old fist at the cathedral. "Yon bloody parsons gets their money regular," he cried. "It don't matter to them if Durham is unemployed and hungry. A feast of beauty the Dean calls his ruddy cathedral-but it won't fill empty stomachs. The Dean and that lot, they'd like to keep this ruddy city as it was centuries...
...Dictator. So long as he can operate his dictatorship in his unique way, 'Somoza prefers to avoid violence. "I want to treat everybody good," he says. "But if they don't come across, Godammit, they better remember I got an iron fist under my silk glove. I pray to God that the glove never rips...