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...good deal more to be proud of. In his 16th major league season, "Charlie Hustle," the man of the headfirst slide, has plunged headlong into the record books, taking with him a new mark for consecutive-game hitting streaks by modern-era National Leaguers. Last week Rose surpassed Tommy Holmes' 37-game record, set in 1945. Then, tackling the American League, he moved past Ty Cobb (40 in 1911) and tied George Sisler (41 in 1922) in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game major league record...
...have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided to try to kill himself by running headfirst at the blood-spattered torture room wall. Then a guard hit him and sent him flying at the wall, where he saw KEEP THE FAITH, BABY scratched in the mud and blood. Soon after that, his captors began demanding antiwar statements rather than military secrets...
...lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later it was a lanky giant being sucked headfirst into the dark...
Tony Hiss has decided wisely against a headfirst entrance into the debate. His father is currently pushing for a complete vindication through the courts; Laughing Last, therefore, steers clear of extended technical discussions of the Woodstock typewriter and the Pumpkin Papers microfilm, the evidence dear to the scholars of the case, and instead concentrates on the personal side of Alger Hiss and with equal success, on Tony Hiss his son. This is not to suggest Tony Hiss has any doubts about his father's innocence; on the contrary, quite clearly he thinks a great injustice has been done. Rather than...
...course they didn't make it. Chuck kept his foot on the gas, slid backwards into the cliff, totalled the car and walked away from it. But Elvin lost his nerve, hit the brakes, couldn't make the turn, went headfirst into a stationwagon full of people coming up the river from Charleston. Two people got killed, Elvin one of them. I was the first to get to the car, and as soon as I did it blew...