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...public record does not show Ike's having SOBed anyone, but he did. Asked to sign a special bill granting $125,000 to a bombsight inventor who had been denied any wartime compensation owing to national security strictures, Ike exploded, recalling his overworked, ill-paid years under the lash of "Black Jack" Pershing and General Douglas MacArthur. As Ike signed the bill, he SOBed the whole idea with an original but unprintable twist or two. His loyal aides never leaked it until...
...stark fact of Marcos' stubbornness cannot be overlooked. On the basis of his track record, it is not clear that Marcos would submit to even the toughest U.S. pressures. Indeed, the Philippine President, who has long honed his skills as a ruthless infighter, might lash out independently if he felt he was dangerously cornered. In an explosion of violence, the lives of his opponents might be even more directly at risk...
...perceived oppressors: Western and Arab, Christian and Jewish. "If you develop a psychosis that the whole world is against you," says M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor of international law at Chicago's De Paul University, "then the only way to survive is to become clannish, mystical, fanatic and sometimes to lash...
...tank, of 1950s vintage, belonged to the Egyptian army and had been transported to Baltimore on the U.S. barge Lash Atlantico on its way to Teledyne Continental Motors in Muskegon, Mich., for repairs and rebuilding. The driver parked the T-54 for more than a week while he went off in search of a special permit to transport the overweight load on Maryland's roads. In the end, police returned the guns, and the tank continued its decades-long voyage from Moscow to Muskegon...
Svetlana often walked away from places with a malediction on her lips. Thus had she left the Soviet Union and thus would she eventually depart the West. Men and women who got to know her felt the lash of her leave-takings. Said one former friend: "If you didn't stop your life and devote yourself completely to hers, she would cast you out into utter darkness...