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Sirens wailed the alarm; ushers, as formally dressed as their French colleagues, charged into the fray, tail coats flying. The Communists seized chairs, broke them up into clubs. Senators doubled up as fists and feet hit their stomachs...
...permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads of his comrades as he dived viciously into the fray. Outside, in the streets of Rome and other cities, Marxists yelled "Peace! Down with war!" and led demonstrators against club-swinging police...
...Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
Labor entered the fray with a proud record: not a single parliamentary seat lost in 46 by-elections since it came to power in 1945. To fill the seat left vacant when Hammersmith's Laborite W. T. Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking...
...Winthrop-Eliot fray, centerman Ted Nelson of the Puritans outjumped center Bob Crichton of Eliot to keep Winthrop ahead during the entire game. The final score...