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...ever seen in my life. I had mistakenly assumed that once having answered all these questions in South Dakota, I did not have to answer them again. Then I did an awful local TV show. The reporter kept asking questions and I kept declining to answer-an atrocious performance. Afterward I realized I'll just have to answer the questions as many times as they're asked...
...handed it to the referee. Afterward, he said, "I sealed a cruncher," and then went bowling. Spassky and his team of analysts, meanwhile, studied the position long and hard that night looking for a flaw in Fischer's assault. Next day, when Fischer was late in arriving, the referee opened his envelope and made the move: a bishop check on the king. It was indeed a cruncher, and Spassky, without bothering to reply, tipped over his king to signify his defeat...
...aisles began to fill between sets. And the cops cleared them hydraulically, by simply pushing on the front two people in the aisle until everybody had begun to move back. People were remarkably cooperative, as we cruised the aisles afterward suggesting that people go back to their seats, and not linger in the aisles. I ran into one kid quite obviously on the wrong end of some Seconal who wanted to tell me that he, personally, was going to try for the stage...
...weeks ago, 8,000 U.D.A. men massed to extend one of Belfast's barricaded areas and were met by British troops. Fortunately for both sides, a compromise was worked out. Said one U.D.A. commander afterward: "If anyone had told me a year ago that we'd have 8,000 men standing eyeball to eyeball with the British army in the pouring rain, and then say 'All right, you're going home,' and the men went home, I wouldn't have believed it. The determination of these men, properly channeled...
...also, she admits, afraid of having to live with her own cowardice afterward. During one tremendous storm, she called on God for help but afterward reflected that the call had been forced from her in desperation. It was not made, she concludes, in a religious spirit, with faith that it might be effective. "I know what prayer should be," concludes Nicolette, "and my cries did not resemble prayer in any meaningful way." All in all she makes a fine singlehanded sailing companion for any reader...