Word: cues
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...they waited for their entrance cue, the doors clicked shut. Inside, wiry, hardbitten Councilor James S. Coffey of East Boston had seized the floor. Councilor Coffey once cut short a discussion on the morals of bribe-taking by remarking: "I'll take a buck and who the hell doesn't know it? I would like to see the guy who does not take a buck." Now he had a few thoughts about the visiting Japanese. "Mr. President," he cried. "I want to make a motion to keep them out of here. Will we forget the March of Bataan...
...Cue. In San Antonio, Mrs. Elma Dill Spencer's watchdog, missing while her house was being looted, showed up later and attacked the cop who came to investigate...
...Chase. Shortly before 3 o'clock one morning last week, just seven months and a day after their wedding near Cannes, Rita gave Aly his cue, and Aly, in his own words, "blew up completely." Throwing away the script, he stopped long enough to get into his clothes and help Rita put a mink coat over her pajamas. Then he hustled her out of the four-room suite, through one of the hotel's side exits and into a black Buick. Aly took the wheel himself and roared off to the clinic two miles away...
...During the Great Moscow Purge trials in 1938, Nikolai Krestinsky similarly repudiated his confession, screamed: "Not guilty." He was rushed out of the courtroom, returned 20 minutes later to go back on the stand. That time he was letter-perfect in his part, missed not a cue...
...round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that Joe looks awful good; he sure is still...