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...struggling under the side of the desk in the center of the stair, uttering his own brand of condescension: "apebreath, banana boy, wop, grease ball, pizzabrain, vegetable-peddler;" he was pulling all the plugs on a last ditch performance to maintain grace. And I was unable to respond, my own vicious and maligned thoughts were tripping over each other, filling my mouth with cotton candy, my head with the stuff of insanity...
...final bit of George's Island trivia, also connected with the Civil War. It was here that a group of ditch diggers composed John Brown's Body. Noticing the resemblance between the names of one of their company, John Brown, and the late abolitionist, they wrote the tune. Soon it had spread all over the island, but that was as far as it went until Abraham Lincoln heard a unit on paraxe detail in Boston playing the song. He liked the music more than the words, turned to Julia Ward Beecher for help, and the rest, as they...
...through territory that Carter had alienated. "In 1977 the Texas Farmworkers Union went to Washington, and Carter would not receive us," said Union Leader Antonio Orendain. "If next year weren't an election year, she never would have come." Said Dancy Buttery of Harlingen: "This is a last-ditch attempt to save face. Carter has had three years to make a difference. It's been a waste...
DUKE reached his epiphany, as it were, on his deathbed, when he converted to Catholicism. That's not American, that's Italian. That image sticks with you: Wayne gone puling in supplication to God, a pathetic last-ditch stab at atoning for a lifetime of atrocities before his bulldozer goes over the cliff. But it was too late for John Wayne. When he died he met 50,000 American ghosts, and quite a host of Vietnamese. They had a lynching party for John Wayne in Heaven last week. They ripped out his guts and they ripped out his spleen...
...could think of this as a last-ditch attempt to shore up international trade, but until it goes into effect it is too early to judge its impact," Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday...