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...Facing a state legislature dominated by Democrats in six of his eight years as Governor, he repeatedly opposed legislative proposals to institute the withholding of state income tax from paychecks. Said Reagan in 1969: "The only way I would support withholding is if they held a burning blowtorch to my feet." No one did, but Reagan nonetheless changed his mind and in 1971 signed a tax withholding...
...Block 4, which housed suspected informers and others with reason to fear violence from fellow inmates. According to survivors, the "execution squad" doused some men with gasoline and set them on fire; others were hacked to death with homemade knives. Members of the squad killed one prisoner with a blowtorch, holding him before a window in full view of the lawen forcement officials and National Guards men who had gathered outside the 15-ft. prison fences...
According to California energy experts, once the wood chips and walnut shells are lit with a blowtorch or an electric hot rod, they continue to bake on their own and give off a steady supply...
...plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch for a tongue. He yearns to puncture all the hypocritical balloons of civilized life. As for the woman, Ann Whitefield (Carole Shelley), she is a spiritedly fetching minx and a sly enchantress of guile to whom any man might feel lucky to surrender...
...been a rough day," the President says as he takes a single pork chop. He recalls his lunch with the labor leaders. "Whew," he says. "Those fellas can be mean. They used a blowtorch on me. That's the first time George Meany has ever talked to me that way." Then comes a typical Carter afterthought: "Tough, but polite. I listened, but I don't think I satisfied them. The minimum-wage bill has labor mad. The farm-price-support bill has the farmers mad. Pretty soon we're going to announce the energy policy-and everybody...