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Stokey refused to say whether there were other candidates left over from the last search that the school might turn to. She added that "the time bind is not as bad as it might seem. Even if Professor Thompson had accepted, he might not have been able to come for next September...
Into Hilles Bind them...
Whether or not Matthiessen realizes he is caught in this bind of his own making is unclear. He does, however, know that though he walked away from Crystal mountain a somewhat changed person he didn't walk away a transformed man, as he set out to do. He knows that the snow leopard confounded...
...search of ways to beat the oil-import bind, some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced...
Still another couple, Nick (Michael Stroud) and Jan (Polly Adams), have accepted an invitation to the party, but Nick has suffered an agonizing back-muscle bind. The mutual intention of all three couples is to sleep peaceably in the three separate bedrooms that span the stage. It is not to be, to the playgoers' high manic hilarity...