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...mild-mannered priest, Don Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...
...Words & Ginger Ale. For ten days the six "Christian Commandos"-all hearty Methodist ministers-had been on an evangelizing pub-crawl in Plymouth. Their reception was not always as hearty as at the Tom Elliott. Said one of them: "Sometimes we're accompanied by a continual barrage of strong swearing, but Bird here plays the accordion so loud they can't make themselves heard...
...marble halls. The 42-acre Hunter College campus was pleasant and green, but its turreted granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for educating young females. The UNO council chamber had been built in only 15 days and still looked, somehow, as though an irascible electrician might crawl out from beneath a desk. There were blackboards in the halls, a strong smell of paint in the air, and neat signs which still read "Corrective Room" and "Meditation Chapel." And, like most other newcomers to New York City, UNO had been engulfed as well as accepted...
...other things: men put through calisthenics which lasted three hours in the morning, three and a half in the afternoon; men found with cigarets, forced to eat them; men asking to go to the latrine, dosed with castor oil. Another allegation: Negroes in the mess hall were forced to crawl and bark like dogs before they were...
...nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate the human race. The good men would have objected on the ground that...