Word: gutterally
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Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...
When he discovered the identity of Mr. Marshall, Telvi came back and demanded $50,000. He was promised an additional payment, and two weeks later he got it: he was shot in the back of the head and dumped into an East Side gutter...
...Rabb to testify on how the reporter's information was supplied. Twice Rabb pleaded ignorance and refused to appear. "Inexcusably arrogant,'' snapped G.O.P. Senator Joe McCarthy, who was also rankled by the "scurrilous statements" that Donovan attributes to Ike (sample: "I will not get in the gutter with that...
...along with, on at least one occasion, a threat to take his case to the U.S. public), President Eisenhower managed considerable improvements in his relationships with Congress. Despite John Bricker and Joe McCarthy (of whom Ike, when urged to attack McCarthy publicly, snapped: "I will not get in the gutter with that guy"), Congress approved most of Ike's massive legislative program in 1954. In 1955 Congress was Democratic-and the Eisenhower program again met with a large measure of success. Then came the September night in Denver when Mamie Eisenhower called Dr. Howard McCrum Snyder to her husband...
...midstroke, Glover splashed to a stop at the shallow end of the pool, then grabbed the gutter with both hands. "John, have you got a cramp?" asked an assistant coach. "Can I help you?" John Glover slumped back into the water, his eyes closed. Some swimmers grabbed him and lifted him to the deck, face down. He groaned two or three times, but he did not respond to artificial respiration. A Pulmotor did not help. An ambulance rushed Glover to the hospital but he was dead when it got there...