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However foolish their 1956 conspiracy with Israel to recapture the Suez Canal, the U.S. decision first to vote with the Soviets to condemn them at the United Nations and then to apply what Gaddis calls "crushing economic pressure" on their currencies was hardly a collegial way to run the alliance.
This chilling story of a mother's crushing love for a son will haunt me long after I've forgotten the details of the handover ceremony.
Sultan Abdül Hamid II (1876–1909) tried to apply absolute rule to an empire staggering under a crushing foreign debt, with a fragmented population of hostile people, and succeeded only in creating ill will and dissatisfaction amongst the younger generation of educated Turks.
Thus, Roadrunner . Thus, the string of successes on Late Night With David Letterman involving the dimwitted demolition of culturally evocative objects--Running Stuff Over With a Steam Roller, Dropping Stuff off a Five-Story Tower, Crushing Stuff in a Hydraulic Press, Dropping a 1,000-Pound Weight Onto Stuff, Crashing Into Stuff With a Locomotive.
(In one of the book's first scenes, he kills his sons' mutt by crushing it in a door after it tears apart a neighbor's cat.)