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...weeks later, the situation appeared even more serious, and Bobby finally released a rather limp announcement through Justice Department Aide Ed Guthman. It said that the Attorney General "wishes to discourage any efforts on his behalf in New Hampshire or elsewhere." At about that same time, New Hampshire's Democratic leaders woke up to the situation, began urging voters to write in Johnson as well as Bobby...
...there is a brief interrogation session before one is run up to the fifth floor cages. "Youah name Weavuh, dat raht?" Without thinking, I replied, "That's right." He leaped across the table and beat me out of the room and halfway down the hall. I finally went limp and fell to the floor, hoping that he would think that I was seriously hurt and slack off--he began kicking me in the ribs and I hurriedly considered the practicality of nonviolence in this situation. He grabbed me by my shirtfront--ripping it and straining himself--and dragged me back...
...wonder. After one look at Sandy, illicit designs dissolve in a scrubbed glow of innocence; an evening with her would leave anyone limp-with laughter. She purports to be 30 in the play, but has trouble looking one-third that ancient...
...there is little incentive to produce attractive, well-made goods or to improve design. If a factory retools for a new product, the lost production time may well cost its manager his bonus for overfulfilling the sacrosanct quota. As it is, at the end of every month he is limp from shturmovshchina, the frenetic, last-minute battle to beat the quota...
...this play; he created a long episode of Don Juan in Hell specifically as a setting for what he called a "Shavio-Socratic dialogue." But Shaw could preach without becoming soporific. John Cunningham's commanding performance as Don Juan helps prevent the scene in Hell from going entirely limp. And Frank Lucas's portrayal of a civilized, romantic Lucifer is as delightfully incongruous as his depiction of Mendoza, the brigand chief...