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...pens and tie clasps, and set up many a drink). Once in the hierarchy, called the Imperial Divan, the select and exalted nobles move up automatically one position each year until reaching the Imperial Potentateship. Lloyd was defeated for Outer Guard the first year; the next year his rivals withdrew, and he was unanimously elected...
...drinking glass and made an incision, I think with a penknife, in the side of her neck, and collected a glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank it. I put him in a 40-gallon tank and disposed of him with acid...
Before the workers finally withdrew, pending negotiations, a graver incident occurred. Mild, retiring U.S. Vice Consul William M. Olive, who had left the consulate before the siege began, got stuck in his car amid the parading mob; he waited for two hours, then was arrested for traffic violations and obstructing the parade. The Communist cops did not allow U.S. officials to see him in jail. Sixty-six hours later he was released-after, as the Reds put it, "being given sincere and serious education by the police...
...company through the lushest days of its World War II boom. Ward had decided to retire (the board had voted him a $25,000-a-year pension for life). Sherman Fairchild (who still owned 95,000 shares) formed a committee to defeat the pension. Ward was alarmed and withdrew his plan. Fairchild went ahead with his committee. Its new purpose: to oust Ward...
...Withdrew from the American Association of Universities...