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This sort of versatile shifting defense demands a versatile anchor man and, says Layne, "Joe is the finest in the league. He doesn't pop like a lot of others. A lot of these guys hit high and hard, and there's a big pop when their shoulder pads bounce off the guy they're after. The pop gets the fans all shuddering, but the poppers are the guys who miss the tackles. Joe just doesn't miss...
...Before World War II, the proudest moment in the declining years of the great, square-rigged cargo carriers was the annual "grain race" from Australia to England. Some 20 windjammers hauled anchor down under at the start of that race in 1932, but by 1949 only two were left to make the run: the Pamir and her sister ship, the Passat. One by one, the others had fallen foul of wind and wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly...
...leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room. A shiny blue Anchor Books stand adds the one note of trimness and order to the place...
...placed on the mandible, or lower jaw. As the process is described in Implant Dentures (Lippincott; $12) by Drs. Aaron Gershkoff and Norman I. Goldberg of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, soft tissues are sutured over the lattice, leaving four posts protruding in the mouth to support and anchor dentures...