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...hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant Gabrielle is freed, and sails for the U.S. with a dazzled financier named Carapin...
...match began with hopes for a Crimson victory as the matmen swept three of the first four bouts. Tony Woodfield's easy 12-3 decision over Habib Ladjevardi at 123 inspired a similar rout by George Doub (130), who decisioned Phil Scott, 14 to 0. At 137 Tom Ownsley was downed by Yalie Tim Welles, but captain Nick Estabrook (147) came through with...
...July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...
...Olive Branches. All the militiamen Castro has mustered so far-10,000 men with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small...
...committee of prominent Russian artists and writers has already protested that the "senseless dissonance" of a modern hotel would ruin the "harmonious Kremlin ensemble." But the traditionalists have been put to rout by the erection inside the Kremlin itself of a vast meeting hall in the glass-and-chromium tradition of the U.N. itself...