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...lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern, and then reform a few minutes later...
...though he is probably the world's champion ecclesiastical sourpuss, is a man of not inconsiderable influence in Spain. When he calls Claus "put of a Protestant maneuver to undermine the deepest Christian meaning, of our tradition" and says that he conceals" a sectarian aim hidden under the red grab of an Old Man who seems native but who has spent many hours of his life as a knave." (The New York Times, December 15) it is time for reexamination. We must recall the pastern of accusations in these times they are made first by psychopaths, next by ambitious legislators...
...trying to grab a polo shirt from a skinnier comrade. "This will fit me," he yelled, "and this will fit you." Another brother left the piano, and tried to calm the two down. "All the shirts are the same size," he said...
Fire Chief John F. Collins said yesterday that the police will "grab someone soon," in connection with the series of false alarms sent in from the fire box at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Streets in the past two weeks...
...airport cops who arrested him, he explained that he was broke, out of work and hungry. He had hoped that wherever the plane took him he might learn to read and write, then become a pilot. "I'm going to grab that animal again, when they let me go," he promised...