Word: awfulness
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Wright recalls that just before the attack he heard a voice from behind say. "Hey, I bet that's one of those smart Harvard guys." As he started to walk faster, the same voice said "Aw, the Harvard guy is scared...
...turned out to be the best woman slalomer in the world. In the "Criterium of the First Snow" at Val d'Isère, France, last month, Jean Saubert (rhymes with "Aw, Bert!") won the giant slalom and swept the women's combined Alpine championship. At Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, she split two slalom races, winning one and placing third in the second. Last week at Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race...
...famed war correspondent (John Randolph) has been vilified in print by his old right-wing extremist friend (Larry Gates) as a Communist-line lackey and a "drunken, immoral, yellow-bellied degenerate." An ace trial lawyer (Van Heflin) fights through to victory after the customary initial aw-shucks-not-another-case gambit. Of course there is the loyal, jittery, correspondent's wife, who wants to throw in the towel marked HIS. Of course there is the bright young legal eaglet who breaks the case wide open by being able to read an incriminating scrap of paper upside down...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of I aw, said last night that Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is apparently unwilling to meet him in a dialogue on civil rights when Wallace visits Cambridge this Fall...
...ahead of his closest pursuer, astonished officials huddled and checked their watches. Then they announced his time: 9.1 sec.-a new world record. To prove it was no fluke, he ran another 9.1, winning the finals-but that didn't count, because he had a favoring wind. "Aw shucks," said Bob Hayes. "I was shooting for 9 seconds flat...