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...here one of our party's soldiers showed his grit. "If anyone refuses to go I will make them," he said, using his finger to pull an imaginary trigger aimed at a reluctant driver...
Bush was leaving the door open, but Musharraf was driving at a larger point. "How do we know the United States won't abandon us?" he asked. "You tell your people," said Bush, leaning forward and raising his finger as if testing the wind, "that the President looked you in the eye and told you that he would stick with...
...little colored boy" rumor was just one of many that arose from his rivals' envy or astonishment at the quantity, quality and range of Berlin's output. Another was that he picked out his songs with one finger. To disprove this one, Berlin arranged in 1926 to play for the Herald Tribune's Paul N. Stone, who reported: "It was a simple demonstration, but it did take in eight fingers and two thumbs...
...Poso who calls himself Rudi. Despite being heavily armed?he carries a holstered pistol as well as an automatic rifle and a bayonet?Rudi is reluctant to stop at a Laskar Jihad checkpoint on the road outside Poso. "Do we have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag displaying Laskar's symbol of crossed scimitars droops in the afternoon heat...
...it’s the mess. Editing copy on coarse yellow sheets of paper, the type from the old machines upstairs so uneven you had to notice the way the letters made themselves. Doing paste-up with an X-acto knife that more than once sliced my finger open, smearing blood onto the layout sheet. Swiping down the dripping offset plates so they could be loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they...