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...lured her to a villa outside Paris, stripped her naked and bound her to a bed, beat her with switches, slashed her with a knife, and poured wax in the wounds. Exiled to his estate in Provence, Sade organized a private harem of both sexes. In a foray to Marseilles with his valet, he beat four streetwalkers and allegedly tried to poison one of them. When the police came to arrest him. they found he had run off to Italy with his wife's young sister. In 1777 he recklessly returned to Paris, where his long-suffering mother...
...stoke up Arab rivalries and suspicions, Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov accused Britain, France and Israel of planning "new aggression" against Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and Radio Moscow bristled against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...
...guests often gather around a baby-grand piano while Mrs. Rockefeller plays Mendelssohn or Chopin, or the J.D.R. Jr.s might drive downtown to the Criterion in Bar Harbor to a movie, e.g., The King and I. Every now and then, J.D.R. Jr. darts out on a sudden foray: one day he remarked to a visitor that he had just been out to buy 22 Bibles, "one for each of my grandchildren...
...quarrel with him, for Author Thayer has reached an Everest of vulgarity that may well stand as a mark until standards of literary decency are chucked entirely. His fancy is that Mona Lisa is written by French Poet Francois Villon; it turns out to be a between-the-sheets foray into the political brawls and sexual excesses of Renaissance Italy. It begins with the hero. Giovantonio Del Balzo-Orsini, lying under his mother's bed as she submits to her wifely duties, and it maintains that level of fictional and historical curiosity throughout. Prominent in the milling cast...
...into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...