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Narrow Margins. As the two sides of the House made for each other, shouting curses and grabbing handy weapons, the speaker summoned help on a siren called la Martinella. A phalanx of strapping ushers rushed in. Prohibited from laying hands on the honorable members, the thin line of frock-coated ushers compromised by kicking shins. They were swept aside as the factions closed, fists waving, drinking glasses hurtling, chair legs thudding on skulls. From his seventh-row plush seat, Red Chief Togliatti, carefully guarded by a Red deputy, watched with a connoisseur's interest. Premier Alcide de Gasperi...
...parade, a mixture of blacks, bilious yellows, powder blues, and browns, wound past Littauer Auditorium, up Garden street, and marched onto the Cambridge Common's baseball field. There, the town fathers had set up a stage at home plate, and there the parade spread out to form a phalanx-the American Legionnaires taking up positions in left field...
...Fifth," said Acheson, "NATO itself was reorganized and greatly strengthened." NATO wisely decided to establish a permanent headquarters and to increase Eisenhower's powers. Even after Lisbon, however, NATO politically remains a collection of somewhat dented sovereignties, rather than a fused phalanx of political will and action...
Once we had presented our cards, we were ushered individually to benches in the back of the room. The front rows were already full of women, a great phalanx of middle-aged housewives who outnumbered the men by at least two to one. Being led past them to a seat in the rear of the room gave one a feeling of smallness, such as a drone must experience now and then...
...showcases and chopping block were lost in gloom. Nevertheless, as Patrolman John Hughes squinted cautiously through the shop's window, he was certain that something which looked extraordinarily like a leg of lamb was prowling around inside. He rang for reinforcements. Two squad cars screeched up. A phalanx of coppers tumbled into the meat-shop, pistols drawn, flashlights glaring. On the floor sat a blond, blue-eyed, six-year-old boy. He was playing trains with some sausage...