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Dissolution automatically canceled the seats of all Red Senators "by right," and the Communists roared with anger. De Gasperi replied: "We have been the target of attacks, the butt of calumny and insults for days and nights, weeks and months. We kept silent . . . This reserve of ours may have made our opponents believe that we lacked both arguments and courage. I hope they have been enlightened...
...half of them would be thieves ... I myself . . . will slaughter cattle in the Avenida General Paz, and give meat away free." To get meat to markets, he threatened to "use troops to storm the cattle ranches." As for black-marketing butchers, "I will make them obey by the rifle butt...
...interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a gun butt), and once was stood before a firing squad (but that was just a joke: after firing over his head, the Russians roared with laughter...
...stocky little U.S. first lieutenant checked over his flight papers and manifest, then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
...Answer. Part of Arkansas' economic growth was a natural result of the postwar boom. But a great deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies...