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...fleas carried on rats, raged through London in the summer of 1665, killing 68,500 people, a sixth of the city's population. Two-thirds fled the city, carrying the disease with them. Tiny and remote, Eyam seemed safe. But that September a village tailor received an infested bolt of cloth from London. Within a few days the tailor died. Soon dozens of others were seized by raging fever, vomiting, giddiness and excruciating buboes (swollen glands). But by the end of May the pestilence seemed to have run its course, with only 77 dead...
...Texan Phil Gramm, who sat in on Democratic budget caucuses while working with the White House, and Hance, who not only co-sponsored Reagan's tax cut bill but also won $40 in a White House staff pool by correctly guessing the number of Democrats who would bolt with...
...stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...decided on his own that would be all right, based on his latest intelligence from the State House," Wylie said. In the past week, Democrats in the State House have threatened to bolt from the leadership and increase state...
...state party convention in Bavaria last week, Schmidt warned that unless the internal bickering stops, the strongly pro-NATO Free Democrats might bolt the governing coalition and join the opposition Christian Democrats, thus toppling Schmidt's government. Though the convention voted overwhelmingly to endorse Schmidt's stand on the missiles, the issue will continue to divide the party and threaten the Chancellor's ruling coalition for months to come. By James Kelly. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington