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...tarmac at a Buenos Aires airport that the years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered in her hotel suite. "I'm not going...
Brigadier General Norman ("Dutch") Cota, assistant commander of the 29th Division, waved his .45 pistol as he strode heedlessly through the gunfire. When he found a cluster of soldiers in the shelter of the embankment, he asked them who they were. They said they were Rangers. "Then, goddammit," said the general, "if you're Rangers, get up and lead the way." They did. Under the cover of a brushfire that had been started by the Navy shelling, 35 men managed to scale the bluffs and get behind the German gun positions...
...Neill had heard enough. Incensed by an attack on Democratic legislators by Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia during a debate last week, the House Speaker dropped his gavel and strode angrily onto the floor, leaving his Massachusetts colleague Democrat Joseph Moakley to take the chair. O'Neill shook a finger at Gingrich and roared, "You challenged their patriotism, and it is the lowest thing that I have ever seen in my 32 years in Congress...
...been waiting four or even seven hours to greet their hero, but their spirits had not been dimmed. When a navy blue Chrysler New Yorker pulled to a halt and the candidate leaped out, the crowd surged over wooden police barricades chanting, "Win, Jesse, win!" Jackson, smiling broadly, strode into the throng, surrounded by apprehensive Secret Service agents who formed a circle around him; one kept a tight grip on the back of Jackson's raincoat so that he could yank the candidate down immediately if any danger arose. None did; Jackson's admirers obviously wanted only...
...Crimson men's and women's tracksters strode against Northeastern on Saturday. Opening the spring season with the inaugural meet for Harvard's new $1 million track and field facility...