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...screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept Party assignments, I would make speeches...
With the gusto that made him the pre-presidential darling of Argentina's underprivileged, Juan Domingo Perón last week tore into the battle against inflation. "Either the cost of living is lowered or wages will be raised," said he, with an assurance that few economists could conjure...
...spoke of Maurice Thorez (pronounced tore-ezz), to whom she had borne two sons (9 and 4) and whom she had at last married a few months ago. People said that he was Vice President of France. Jeannette Vermeersch denied it, with biting political irony rather than wifely indignation: "Where would he get the money? The Communist Party allows its deputies to keep only 8,500 francs [$70] out of their monthly salary of 30,000 francs [$250]. And this year rich capitalists are not helping Maurice Thorez give 35,000-franc presents to mistresses...
...trustee (for eight years), and then as just a plain political boss, he slugged and beat and charmed his way to power. Always, he fought the "interests." When the Frisco and N.C. & St.L. railroads failed to agree with his interpretation of their franchises, he marched out with a crowbar, tore up their tracks, and stationed police over his handiwork...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...