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...constituency the Unionists lost was Roman Catholic East Tyrone, where the Nationalist Party, which favors union with Dublin, has been in full sway since 1921. Some of the Nationalists in East Tyrone wanted to return Joseph Stewart, Dungannon publican, to the seat he has held for 20 years. Others thought better of Desmond Mallon, who publicly promised not to take the seat even...
...wrinkle: kits from which amateurs can design and assemble their own mobiles ($7.50, MobiProducts, Bloomington, Ind.). Experts' advice to automobilists: models that are balanced too carefully will not move easily; a good mobile should sway in the updraft from any mild cocktail party argument or even the softest gurgle from the crib...
...mustache had been shaved off, that he wore a white T shirt, and that his feet were shod in cloth slippers. The prison chaplain, R^bbi Irving Koslowe, intoned the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want . . ." Just before the chair, Julius seemed to sway. Guards quickly placed and strapped him in the seat, then dropped the leather hood over his face. Three shocks of 2,000 volts each flung his body convulsively against its bonds. Listening with stethoscopes to the heart under the T shirt, attending doctors pronounced Julius Rosenberg dead...
...Vengeance, Companions!" He rambled, he screamed, he repeated. But his emotion, freed of any cumbersome logic, began to sway the mob: "Companions, they can throw bombs and spread rumors, but all that concerns us is that they do not get their way ... If to destroy the evil and dishonest I must go down in history as a tyrant, I shall do so with pleasure . . . And may God grant that I won't have to employ the most terrible punishments...
...true sports car, comfort, room and easy riding took a back seat to performance, i.e., roadability, sensitive steering, balance, fast acceleration and speed. Many of the qualities that made an excellent sports car (e.g., a short wheelbase and hard springing to cut down sway) also made the passenger feel as though he were being dragged along the road in a box. So American carmakers, sniffing the trend, set to work to see what they could...