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...concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat." So, too, with the American slaves who often acquiesced in their own servitude because their imaginations were finely tuned and played upon. Perhaps the most terrifying place in all literature is Room...
...terrorism was still rampant in the Gaza Strip; it was three years before the army let her team begin. Even then, a squad of soldiers always stood guard and allowed no digging after 4 p.m. Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging on his own. As he walked over the dunes, he would hold a long screwdriver before him like a divining rod and mutter in Arabic, "Yom assal, yom bassal [One day it is honey, one day it is onions...
...second day of deliberation, the jury took its first vote: it was split. The crucial factor in the jurors' minds was Harris' detailed yet contradictory description of the shootings. They asked to have five hours of her testimony reread. Foreman Russell Von Glahn, a bus mechanic from Yonkers, had a clerk repeat aloud again and again the parts where Harris tried to recall how the shots were fired. Marion Stephens, a teacher from Rye, asked to have Harris' account of how she attempted suicide reread twice...
After 3½ years in the Army, where he rose to the rank of captain, Baldrige went to work as a shop foreman in an ironworks, rising through the ranks to become president. He joined Scovill in 1962, and is credited with changing the company from a stodgy brass manufacturer with sales of $164 million to a conglomerate that now has sales of about $1 billion in goods ranging from appliances and building products to locks and zippers...
...running back rushed for 6,137 yds. in high school and set national records by scoring 85 touchdowns, 45 of them during his senior year. He was also state champion in the shotput (54 ft.) and the 100-yd. dash (9.5 sec.). Son of a chalk-mine foreman, Walker graduated with honors...