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...learning, wit and literary talent, Herriot strode energetically through four decades of turbulent French politics. "Don't go to sleep thinking a thing is impossible," he was fond of saying. "You'll probably be awakened by the noise of somebody else doing it." He was three times Premier of France before World War II. After France fell and Petain took over, Herriot mailed his Legion of Honor decoration to Vichy. The Nazis imprisoned him in Germany, and he was three times reported dead. But he came back and set up his own little camp along the tent-speckled...
...dark brown suit, knotted his regimental tie (the blue and scarlet stripes of the Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda and to stay out for the rest of his life. He was hustled to Entebbe airport, bundled aboard a waiting R.A.F. transport plane and flown directly...
Next morning 5,000 Euskalduna workers, defying Spain's drastic laws against industrial strikes, stood at their machines, silent and unbudging. Escorted by armed guards, Don Elisardo strode among the workers, cursing and threatening. Silently they stared back at him, and would not work. Three truckloads of guardsmen drew up and drove the workmen from the plant. Sixteen of them were bundled into a Black Maria...
Then, on the evening of May 14, 1692, a ship docked in Boston Harbor. The sturdy figure of the Reverend Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, strode ashore, accompanied by Sir William Phips, newly-appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. For four long years, Mather had been in England, leading the fight to secure a new charter for the colony. At last his mission had ended and he was ready to resume his Harvard duties again, as well as his numerous ministerial tasks...
...about Princeton's "narrow escape with impotent Harvard." The Yalie thought that "impotent" business was pretty cute until Vag snarled "too bad you missed the Dartmouth game this year." The Eli suddenly started talking about Malloy's broken leg. The tension broke when Vag's Princeton Ensign strode up and bet the Eli that Harvard would win. Vag had always claimed you couldn't tell a Princeton from a Yalie, but any Charlie who put money on Harvard was Vag's buddy. This even deserved another drink...