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...difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over his body. One false move, he was warned, and he would be set afire. Finally, one of the prisoners managed to wriggle free of his handcuffs and set off an alarm. But the masked men had fled two hours earlier, taking with...
When the office learned that Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy's assassin, had travelled in the Soviet Union. Chayes' boss sent him to recover Oswald's passport files. "You felt like someone had taken your stomach out, but you had to keep going...
...ground beside him, lay on his stomach crying. The men washing down the steps of Widener Library had stopped, and sat silently...
Hennessey, Leroy and Crowley are but three of the 300 students each year who decide that they cannot stomach four straight years of the Cambridge academic life...
...first bargain retailers and lately one of the fastest growing, does not have customers; it has addicts. Says one shopper, a woman who works for a New York advertising agency: "When I miss a week, I feel as though I've missed out on something. My stomach gets tight and I feel sick." Lauren Bacall, in her autobiography, By Myself, cites Loehmann's nine times...