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...Brewer house, pistol in hand, crying, "Hello, Uncle-get over there and sit down!" Brewer and his fearful wife obeyed. But nothing happened-Irwin just sat down too. The girl wobbled to the davenport, and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning all three were still sitting motionless in the same chairs. Irwin hustled her into the Brewer's Oldsmobile sedan and drove off. He pulled up at a rural cornfield, raped her again, taped one of his wrists to hers and slept for an hour...
...ride to oblivion. Right at the start, Tony Something is swept away by the crowd to the back of the bus; Natalie is left alone among the "enemy," which, to her tortured mind, now includes the whole human race. She tries to escape. They close in, holding her motionless. The man on her left nods and winks to the others. A woman's coat brushes mockingly against Natalie's face. Natalie thinks that all of them are in a plot to kill her. Terrified, she asks the man next to her: "What is the last stop?" He replies...
...hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone to the theater . . . Papa stood motionless for some time, all of us sitting there, hanging our heads; then he turned about and went...
...years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
Conditions of Marriage. Economist Remington, testified quiet, sullen-mouthed Ann Moos Remington-looking directly at her ex-husband as he sat motionless and poker-faced at the counsel table-had been a Communist. So, she admitted, had she. Communism, in fact, had been the cement in their romance, which began in 1937 when he was a student at Dartmouth and she an undergraduate at Bennington. She told the jury that once when they were sitting in a parked automobile on the Dartmouth campus, he confided that he "was a member of the Communist Party and adjured me to secrecy...