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What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
...Socialists and many of Adenauer's own colleagues are now urging him to press for German sovereignty without getting involved in the European Army. "If something does not begin developing after the French presidential elections in mid-December," said one German last week, "we'll begin to shout out loud what we have been thinking all along...
...tactful, not too young or too old, with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone and smoke his pipe...
...bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads him to the end of the subway line that goes to Coney...
Those guilty of sin, e.g., misinterpreting the party line or "too close an intimacy with bourgeois friends," were hauled before disciplinary courts where Communist justice was generously dispensed. The presiding Communist would shout: "Don't try to get out of this by making a speech. This isn't a bourgeois court of law. You've no legal rights here; you're a party comrade before a party court...