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...Taft and House Leader Joe Martin (who came up to talk legislative programs) and the Cabinet nominees. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stepped out of the elevator to keep a lunch date with Ike, he was greeted by a glare of flash bulbs and a roar from a photographer (to a slow-footed reporter): "Get the hell out of the road...
...Cmon you guys," he'll hiss. "You're as good as those clowns. Get out there and show them up." This latter with a contemptuous wave at the varsity defense. And the J.V.'s promptly roar through the first-stringers...
...reflected a soberer opinion on the part of many Tory mentors that Churchill's stock did in fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...
...Walcott might finish off Rocky Marciano in the first round. With unexpected boldness, the heavyweight champion moved right in on Challenger Rocky, battered his jaw with short, hard lefts and rights, then tagged him with a left hook. The spectators at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium let out a roar of excitement and surprise as Rocky went down, for the first time in 43 pro fights...
...recall," wrote Lerner, "a little scene from the Cleveland meeting . . . After the Nixon broadcast and before Eisenhower came on to speak, we watched one of the most curious performances in recent campaign history. George Bender, the chairman . . . called for those who would support [Nixon] and there was an animal roar from the hysterical crowd ... It was like a 'stab-in-the-back' rally at the Berlin Sportpalast or the fine justice of the People's Court in one of those East European countries." Thus Max Lerner likened 15,000 Ohio Republicans to Nazis...