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Stewardess Lari Hamel was knocked to the floor in the first-class aisle and four or five bodies fell on top of her; she managed to crawl to a wing exit and escape. In the rear of the plane, one passenger saw a guerrilla appear, gun in hand, and stop passengers from escaping out the rear ramp...
...could explode a bomb next to him, and he would just look at it with extreme interest." His wife describes him as "a man of long indecisions," and Falk agrees. "I don't bust into or out of anything. I get down on my hands and knees and crawl very slowly. It took me nine years to get married, ten to decide to become an actor...
...children's ritualistic questions: "Where are you off to again? What do you do when you get there?" Grass's answer is a sort of bedtime story on politics, featuring as hero the snail: "It seldom wins, and then by the skin of its teeth. It crawls, it goes into hiding but keeps on, putting down its quickly drying track on the historical landscape. Having lived through the schizophrenia of the 20th century-history as fanaticism and history as paralysis-Grass sees no choice but to endorse a middle philosophy of the crawl, to remain "always...
...Carrera sensed the lessening fire, sometimes too soon. For instance, as I was typing in my room early Thursday, a man asked if he could look out the window, which overlooks La Moneda. As he opened the curtain, thwack! came the shot from below. Before I could crawl over and throw him out of my room, he had taken another peek, and we had taken another round. But after three days of entombment in the Carrera he, like everybody else, had begun thinking of other things. He had risked his life to see if his car, which was parked...
...thousand Harvard students sober or energetic enough to crawl out of bed at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning for the long trek over to the Business School field, standing around three deep in the rain or the cold was a small price to pay to see Harvard's superbly-turned soccer machine roll over its opponents week after week...