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Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...
...bones. But if you break a nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." In the late 19th century and early 20th, when the bone of Gaelic nationality was painfully being set, Ireland found voice to curse, plead, moan, gasp, roar and sing out a literature as great and sudden as any of modern times...
...issue. At a caucus of the Massachusetts delegation, predominantly Roman Catholic, one delegate brought up the divorce question. Another said Stevenson couldn't be blamed for the divorce, because his wife divorced him. Said the delegate: "Hell, half of our wives would divorce us if they could." A roar of laughter swept the caucus room. On the third ballot, Massachusetts cast 25 of its 36 votes for divorced Adlai Stevenson...
...Mathias left a mob of newsmen and radio sportcasters in his dressing room, came out and trotted once more around the track to the roar of 5,000 diehard fans. He had racked up a total of 7,887 points, 62 points better than his own world record. But the cheering was not all for the pride of Tulare: his two team mates, New Jersey's 1 8-year-old Milton Campbell and North Carolina's Floyd Simmons had nailed down second and third places for a U.S. sweep of the Olym pics' most demanding test...
Park Row is grandiosely dedicated to American journalism and journalists, but the roar of the Globe's presses comes out as only a squeak...