Mary alone could physically end Moses’s endless work sessions

Evidence

Since none of the staffers dared leave the mansion until Moses left, they longed for him to get a telephone call from Mary, which usually got him away from the big table and back to his house in Babylon. “Sometimes,” Junkamen recalls, “Ray McNulty would slip out and call her and put her up to calling.” One Saturday night, repeated telephone calls from Mary failed to bring Bob home, and at ten o’clock she showed up at the mansion. Striding into the conference room, she “just took him by the ear in a very nice but firm way” and pulled him to his feet, Junkamen recalls. “He just laughed and went along—and then we could all go home.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1006

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the mechanism by which Bella-transmitted force met its one checkmate in Mary — only personal affection could counter his drive.