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...took their quarrel to the city-state of Abdera, which soon divided itself on the question until civil war seemed imminent. The problem was solved when the people set upon what they considered to be the real troublemaker-the donkey-and consequently tore him into a thousand pieces...
...Lyndon Johnson. Now he was weeping. "It didn't sound like a firecracker; I knew it wasn't right off," he said. "It was too loud, and there was a sort of concussion. Then all of a sudden they speeded up in front of us, and we tore right away from there as fast as we could. I saw an agent in front of me pull out his machine gun and look up at the building. The shots were like explosives, horrible explosives. I knew right away that something terrible, terrible, was wrong...
...enormous bulk, a cigar clamped between his teeth, Diego painted exuberantly from dawn to dusk. His only diversion was the women who gathered below to watch him work. Over the years he made love to scores of them, including a tigress-tempered beauty named Guadalupe Marin, who once tore up several of his paintings in a fit of jealousy and on another occasion threatened to shoot off his right...
...gone. It is spring in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Indians are plowing and planting. As their ancestors have done for centuries, those fortunate enough to own oxen bedecked the horns with white streamers and draped their backs with magenta cloth to bring luck. Those without animals simply tore at the grey earth with metal-tipped wooden poles. Women in derbylike hats stooped to plant potatoes, their basic staple of life...
...greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle to get at it. Their family seat today is The Hirsel, a 70-room, Queen Anne mansion at Coldstream, one of the few Scottish homes that are both stately and central-heated...