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...Liberals and fringe-party M.P.s to unite in a majority against the government. All parties are well aware, though, that the voters are in no mood for another election and might lash out at the party that prompted one. Heath himself, before taking up his seat on the opposition bench, called on Britons "to set aside partisan differences." Privately, he attributed his defeat in part to the fact that the electorate was fed up with slanging-match politics...
Harvard exploded for six goals in the third period, sending MacKenzie to the bench with Yale trailing, 6-1, reversing the same margin the Elis held over Harvard only a week before. Steve Dagdigian scored with the power play at 6:19 on a Roth rebound, and Thomas nabbed his second at 7:28 as his shot broke off MacKenzie's stick and tucked into the corner...
Playing without captain Dardenella Robinson, Radcliffe seemed to have the disadvantage. Williams had all their first string players, and had more bench strength as well. But that didn't stop the 'Cliffe...
Goodenow added that this kind of conduct was not limited to Dartmouth students: "I couldn't believe it, but even little kids were coming up to our bench and saying obscenities...
...first encountered the Reverend one dusty day when we needed something cool to drink. He was napping on the bench in front of the grocery, fishing cap down over age-browned eyes. "Orange soda?" he says as he hands up the bottles from the panting cooler, and if you encourage him he begins telling stories from the Bible, and talking in general about the state of the world. He believes that TV faked the moon landings. We react like Zarathustra, thinking to himself, could it be that this hermit, here in his woods, has not yet heard that...