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Stunned, the regime dispatched extra police to the Basque provinces, where tensions were already at the flash point. In protest, 150,000 workers walked off their jobs. Schools shut down, stores closed, and young Basques battled with police in dozens of towns. In Madrid, Franco interrupted his 78th birthday celebration to call an emergency session of his Cabinet and declare a state of emergency in Guipuzcoa, the "most Basque" of Spain's four Basque provinces...
...addiction. I couldn't help myself: I would see some new absurdity-now from the Spartans, now from the Helots-and an impression would come, and the clowning despair would rush over me, the total indifference to anything but the monstrous foolishness of human beings, and in a flash-or a giggle-I was at them. As my idiocy became familiar, it became safe. Children began to mock my eccentricities, or follow after me, mimicking my hobble. At last I had taught them something...
...Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...
Collin Mangrum and Mark Faller at 158 and 167 pounds respectively, turned in "workman-like performances," said Lee. Faller did show a flash of brilliance as he shot into his rival for a quick takedown to break a 1-1 deadlock with 55 seconds remaining in the final period. He advanced to score two points on a predicament and capture a 5-2 victory. Mangrum won his bout...
...time he was 26, Ludwig had acquired an antique oil tanker, one of the first half-dozen ever built. The tanker business has brought him wealth, but it also nearly killed him. In 1926, he went below decks to rescue two sailors overcome by gasoline fumes. A flash explosion killed the sailors and hurled Ludwig 25 feet through the air, fusing three vertebrae in his back. Even today, after a risky operation, he suffers recurring pains...