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...practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamor for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves are seized and sentenced to dreadful punishment...
...Despite all that I know about the drug, despite what I have seen, I am still tempted by it. The pull of the drug is tangible and real, almost like a gravitational force compelling me to want to use it again. To feel just once more the rush and excitement and the sense, even if it's illusory, that life does add up, that there is meaning and form to the passing of my days. Part of me still wants...
...Yale plays an up-tempo offensive game," Mazzoleni said. "They pressure the puck with three men, and they get their defensemen involved in the rush. They scored on us in January in a four-on-two because...
...there wasn't much House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt could do about it Thursday except squawk as loudly as he could - "This is the most irresponsible legislative act that I've ever seen, a rush to judgment," said Gephardt - and try to soften the political ground in the one place where Bush needs Democratic votes badly enough to negotiate a little: the 50-50 Senate...
...Sitting stiffly in high-backed chairs in a formal drawing room, the Democrats looked like they were introducing an unappetizing episode of "Masterpiece Theatre" in which the heroes rush in armed with calculators to save their people from the ravages of indiscriminate tax reform...