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Before his all-male dorm threw a party one weekend, he made 50 notices saying in big letters, "HARVARD PARTY," with the time and place underneath. He posted them at three different colleges for women. With the bait cast he eagerly anticipated the big night. The night of the party he put on his best Harvard rugby shirt and stood against a wall by the party's entrance. He stood there for a long time after the party had started. Tom came by after a while and Walter asked jokingly, but really wanting to know, "Seen any cows...
...wasn't until I vaguely heard a spectator say "Look, that guy ain't even sweatin'" that I realized what I'd done. Dehydration. Heat stroke bait. A very unhealthy situation, especially with Heartbreak Hill looming ominously down the road...
...uninhabited and largely trackless terrain from Sanford, Fla., could not be reached by any land vehicle. The 25-mile trip was made by the chopper in 15 minutes. After landing at lakeside, we unloaded three inflatable rafts from the back of the H-H, pulled out the rods and bait, drew down a screened canopy to make an outside lounge, and were paddling on the lake within 30 minutes...
...legs of a camel. Four later envoys escaped alive, but were no more successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused the bait, and the result was the astonishing spectacle of a nuclear power virtually helpless before a guerrilla leader with a ragtag army of fewer than...
...stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history as the one who sniffed at the bait...