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...viewed the stoppage as a challenge to their ingenuity and set out to reach their jobs by any means possible. Monumental traffic jams stretched for miles. Government-owned trains still ran, but only irregularly, and sometimes arrived at their destination with their windows cracked from passenger pressure. In the crush, commuters lost buttons, clothes, even shoes. One bank clerk reported that "I rode all the way in without my feet once touching the floor...
...then he hit the stretched sheet. He was whirled violently and he offered no resistance, but his arm was being wrapped sort of up around his head. The music blared as he felt his legs go out from under him and his body hit the floor lengthwise. Then the crush...
...lampoon castle rather than at the Advocate Building. The move did not, finally, confound a crowd of well-wishers who had heard Mr. Mailer mention a "libation" that was to follow his address. And so we found Mr. Mailer in the Lampoon banquet hall surrounded by a crush of unexpected undergraduates...
...people will continue to advance firmly in their march to crush the plan for the Vietnamization of the war. Without a doubt, the revolutionary wave will sweep away every counterrevolutionary alliance and "commitment" and drown both the Yankee imperialists and their allies...
Marion expects the match to be decided in the early rounds. "We must crush them in the first round and not let up," he said...