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...Washington landlords were clamoring for the same concessions other landlords had won. This week the House's hold-the-line-in-D.C. bill landed with a thud in the Senate. The man on the spot was the District Committee chairman, Delaware's down-the-line Republican C. Douglass Buck...
...that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...
...shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
...year ago Curtis Publishing Co. rushed the first big postwar magazine to market, then stepped back to await the applause. It was far from deafening. Well heralded Holiday hit the newsstands with a thud, and at 50? a copy most people just let it lie. It was hard to tell the stories from the ads, and the editors themselves hadn't decided whether they were describing a Roman holiday or a beggar...
...Jerusalem echoed with the shattering thud of mines and the staccato gibberish of machine-gun fire, the overwhelming majority of Palestine's 600,000 Jews last week turned definitely and bitterly against the terrorism of Zionist extremists. They had gone...