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...fire bomb through the window of the Catholic family's home in a mostly Protestant housing development in the town of Ballymoney. Lee was saved because he had been spending the night with his grandmother. "It's hot in here," he murmured as he pulled back the flowered bedsheet that served as a curtain and popped open the window. The thud of the mighty drums down the road grew louder, making the floors vibrate. On the day of the wake, Rasharkin happened to be the venue for the local Orange Order marches...
When you get all the fans to come out in the rain when you ruin a bedsheet to make a sign, when you come out so fiery that the hair on your neck stands up, you're not supposed to lose...
...pretense of working and dive in bed. Their lack of interest in reporting is second only to Altman's. Avoiding the flash of the fashion world, they don't miss much--though Lyle Lovett might do well to ask his wife what she was doing with Robbins under that bedsheet...
...homeward bound from Pearl Harbor, they struck again before dawn on Dec. 23. Devereux's Marines fought hand to hand on the beaches for more than five hours. The Stars and Stripes was shot down, then hoisted again on a water tower, but at about 8 a.m. a white bedsheet was raised next to it. Devereux's defenders had killed about 800 Japanese at a loss of 120; of the 400 Marine survivors, a couple were beheaded and the rest shipped into captivity...
...lovely incongruity, weight lifters took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully...