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...second period was perhaps just a blur, or more appropriately, a nightmare, for the hapless Terriers--who boast only club team status--as they yielded five more Crimson tallies...
...Peninsula, offensive as it may be, was the work of only one person, and therefore only he should be held accountable for that article, as the author himself pointed out in a letter to The Crimson last week. To argue about the use of the word "we" is to blur a line which is inherently very clear: individuals are responsible for signed pieces, organizations for unsigned ones...
...Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph; as they and their extended families are tested by hostile neighbors, famines, recurrent infertility and sometimes by the Deity himself. Divine intent and human ambition blur as each generation, often through painful winnowing, produces a champion to advance Israel's destiny. The book ends with Abraham's tiny clan blossomed into the foundations of the 12 Hebrew tribes and a brace of other nations; and the assurance that the people of the Covenant will survive...
...blocks. He momentarily stumbled, then shifted into a gear previously known only to Mercury. The fireflies followed him as he came slinging out of the turn, obliterating the stagger and defying the laws of physics. According to Trinidad's Ato Boldon, who would finish third, "I saw a blue blur go by, whoosh, and thought, 'There goes first.'" As Johnson widened his lead, it was clear he was running for more than gold. Clyde Hart, Johnson's coach, later said, "I was in the stands in Mexico City when Bob Beamon long-jumped over 29 ft., and even when...
...inaugural track-and-field meet for Atlanta's Olympic stadium in May, two officials watch a Ukrainian pole vaulter prepare for his first jump. The vaulter has been rooted in hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into...