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...onlookers jeered and whistled. A 19-year-old in a white sweat shirt drew loud laughter by pretending to direct the hymn. Then, some in the crowd picked up dust and debris from the road and tossed it over the singers, but they paid no attention. A loudspeaker truck blaring jazz music raced up and pointed its horn directly at the group. Chief of Police Edward Carpentier arrived and ordered the singers to move on. When the Baptists refused, a dozen burly men hit them in a flying wedge. For 15 minutes the mauling went...
...skipping from one point on the time track to another, the patient eventually relives a variety of painful experiences. In so doing, he may reel from the relived pain of a blow on the head, double up with stomach cramps, sweat or shiver in terror. Once these painful engrams have been run through the waking analytical mind, says Hubbard, they lose their "charge"-their power of evil. The analytical mind puts them in a dead file like so many closed accounts. The final goal of dianetics-in its own jargon-is to make the patient a "clear," a person whose...
...speeds or overparks doesn't have a chance before the judge," he said. "But let a pilfering politician steal public funds, and you'll have to sweat blood before you find 12 good and honest men to convict...
...down the hole in fright. He reassured her. But the police sent for a doctor and a priest. Oxygen was piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...
...crew won the bet in the trial but the time cannot be disclosed. When they got back to the boat house, the rowers stripped Bolles to a pair of sweat pants and gently dunked...