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Coupled with the comic-book action is the presentation of the Incredible family as a typical, if unique, American family. Elastigirl berates her husband for taking the wrong highway exit as the family careens through the city in a rocket. Mr. Incredible loses his potbelly by bench pressing boxcars. His daughter Violet turns herself invisible when her school crush looks...
...Williams of the Boston Red Sox looked as fit as an Indian buck ... But as usual Ted Williams had a number of worries at the back of his mind ... On paper the Sox have the best first team in the business, but they are weak "on the bench," i.e., in replacements. Midseason injuries to such mainstays as dependable Bobby Doerr and hustling hard-hitting (39 homers last year) Vernon Stephens could well put the Sox out of the running. Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race...
...sign, 4 ft. by 6 ft.--I am actually going to stand by the side of the road and hold it, that's how nuts I am. I take my face to a suburb where Democrats are a sort of alien life-form, and I stand on a bench on a deck in the dark and talk to 80 people shivering in the cold like boat refugees, and I excoriate and extol and exhort in uplifting cadences about this evil war, the miserable economy that is bringing back the 60-hr. workweek and the folks who don't mind this...
...defense, however, would not let up in Hull’s absence. Another freshman—Danielle Mirabal—emerged from the bench and shut down the Huskies’ forwards, who spent much of the second half watching as the ball moved up the field for the Crimson...
...We’ve had a really talented team all around,” Kerr said. “The guys that came off the bench played well. I’m not afraid to put them...