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Resentful, Resentful. Girls were inclined to melt when they looked into his "Madonna eyes" but refreeze slightly when they noted his "mean-looking mouth." O'Neill maintained a free course for himself, to the point of sleeping with the wife of lohn Reed (Ten Days That Shook the World) at a time when Reed was one of his closest friends. But whenever his own second wife, Agnes Boulton, so much as sat with another man, O'Neill was capable of hitting her across the face "as hard as possible with the back of his hand...
...pittance and decides that it is time to fall in love. He picks Maria, a pretty, aloof-looking virgin. She turns out to be as eager to fall in love as he is, but she is far more direct and decisive. Antonio is troubled: How could the pure madonna of his fantasy tolerate his touching her? He is still trying to come to terms with this conundrum when Maria's rich parents callously separate the lovers. Antonio suffers extravagantly, even as he falls into the arms of the first promiscuous girl he meets...
Outside, monsoon rain was falling on a blue-and-white plaster Madonna whose forehead had been punctured by a bullet. Steiner was standing in the refectory, the strain of the war lining his face. "You must save Aba at any cost," pleaded Ojukwu. "You must hold the place-is that clear?" Steiner hesitated. "Mon colonel, I was only a sergeant in the Legion," he said. "I cannot command a division." Replied Ojukwu: "Oh, but you will. And you will hold...
...into a bookshop on Tu Do Street, killing two Vietnamese maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from the statue of the Madonna of Peace in John F. Kennedy Square. The final toll for the raid's ten grim minutes: 26 Vietnamese civilians killed and 116 injured...
...outcome, the present widespread rejection of De Gaulle amounted to a private tragedy for a man who, at 77, is in the twilight of his service to France. All his life, De Gaulle conceived of France, in his words, as "the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes." He was convinced that "the in terest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service, and that I would have the occasion...