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What would you guess they proposed? Allowing hunters to kill off some of their numbers? Encouraging furriers to use more beaver pelt? Of course...
...Kluxers kept a wary eye as the demonstrators repeatedly charged the police line, only to be repulsed by chilly blasts from a fire hose. Eventually the frustrated crowd began to pelt the cops with mud, rocks, bottles and obscenities. The police made eight arrests. For the man whose presence triggered the violence, no outcome could have been better. "Oh, yeah," said Grand Wizard Thom Robb of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "I couldn't have bought this advertising for a million bucks...
...Crimson continued to pelt the Columbia net, but Barney stood firm, turning back...
...between sight and mark. One of the miracles of his art is his ability to analyze light, not through the simple juxtaposition of dabs of color but by a layering of tiny brush marks built up from the underpainted ground, so that the eventual surface becomes a fine-grained pelt, seamless and yet infinitely nuanced, from which captured light slowly radiates...
...credit as a Cal Coolidge conservative, President Bush does not interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, the United States. Since all agree that the country's internal affairs are in woeful shape, this should give the Democrats a fine opportunity to pelt him with rotten fruit and dead cats in the most important political yard sale of the quadrennium, next February's New Hampshire primary. Here in New Hampshire, however, we are looking at our watches and asking, "What Democrats? What primary...