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...years thereafter, Yoder was "mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs...
Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
...Chairman Thomas' gavel whacked the table, a four-day parade of witnesses trooped to the stand. These were not publicity-seekers or Citizen Fix-Its; they were definitely recalcitrant. They wrangled angrily with the un-American Activities committeemen and were ordered down again. The witnesses followed a well-organized, prearranged plan...
...batons flailed, crashed with a sickening crunch on faces and shoulders. The Gardes Mobiles drove their rifle butts at the heads of the oncoming Communists; one of the police was shouting "Salauds, salauds" at the top of his voice. The guards wore bayonets at their belts, but did not fix them. I did not hear a shot...
...Cheektowaga, N. Y. Homeowner Walter Pietrzak sat down and wrote to the Town Board: "I want my street fixed, it is a lousy street. I want a sign on it too. That street is really bad. Fix it because it needs fixing. You must fix it because if you don't I will not pay any tax. Fix it. Please fix it. It needs fixing very...