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...most camps, resistance began with the killing of informers. First, there were strange accidents: a log would roll off a pile and cast a stoolie into the river. Then came apparent suicides. Finally, teams of masked men entered the barracks to stab informers with primitive knives. "This was a new period, a heady and spine-tingling period," Solzhenitsyn recalls. "Retribution was at hand-not in the next world, not before the court of history, but retribution live and palpable, raising a knife over you in the light of dawn. It was like a fairy tale: the ground is soft...
Clifford got a break when Shepard's shot sneaked through a hole in the fence, making it a ground-rule double and preventing the run from scoring. Second baseman Halas then saved at least one run with a diving stab of a line drive for the rally-killing third...
Speaking over a podium draped with a banner which read "Free Iran's Political Prisoners," Reza Berahini, Iranian poet and former political prisoner, said President Carter's recent reception of the Shah of Iran in Washington was "a stab in the back of every Iranian who felt he (Carter) was sincere about standing up for human rights...
...reality was very different from what the world thought. Everybody believed that the Soviet Union had backed us and established an air-bridge to help us, but that wasn't the situation. I faced the United States and Israel; while the Soviet Union stood behind me, ready to stab me in the back if I lost 85% or 90% of my arms, just as in 1967. It was obvious now that the United States could destroy my entire air defense system with the TV-camera bombs, and thus give the Israelis the "open skies" of Egypt they had enjoyed...
...guitars and drive them old trucks/Let 'em grow up to be lawyers and doctors and such"), you know this album is going to have some punch and humor. The crazy, whining guitars on "Mamas" come back for an encore in "I Can Get Off On You," perhaps a slight stab at Waylon's Nashville coke bust last fall, and a general paean to the powers of love...