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...dusk approached, the last groups went over the main gate. They had debated for two hours whether doing so might prove an unnecessary provocation because of the earlier incident. Almost all of the final 100 went limp and had to be dragged off are carried away on strechers. The crush of onlookers artificially heightened the tension, as policemen occasionally knocked down ladders or pushed protesters. But by then, people were more tired and wet than angry...
...poorly were Somoza's troops faring that the weary dictator retracted his confident boast that he would crush the Sandinistas' "final offensive" in only two weeks' time. Said he: "When the will of the people weakens, it could go either way. Maybe we win, maybe they...
...their fledgling union. Randolph, whose earlier attempts to organize workingmen had largely failed, at first said no. He was not even a member of that fraternity that shined the shoes and cleaned the cuspidors of traveling America. But he soon saw his mission. The outraged Pullman Co. tried to crush the movement; even Negro preachers and newspapers fulminated against the union. But for ten trying years, Randolph exhorted porters across the country. Finally, Pullman capitulated in 1937 and signed its first contract with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Randolph was confirmed in the affectionate title of "Chief...
...Study Group have taken an important step towards changing the terms of our national debate. With The Price of Defense, they have spoken with clarity and boldness challenging an entrenched and dangerous view of the world. Their primer for peace won't be found on the bookcase that may crush us all someday...
...collapse of shock when chance makes its inevitable appearance. That is what happens to Mrs. Appleyard, the school's headmistress (Rachel Roberts), and to the little academic world she has created, when the full import of the picnic strikes her. The suicide of a girl who had a crush on one of the victims is the final blow...