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...White is a smart fellow, and a son of the Old Sod to boot, so he knows that nobody can really cancel St. Paddy's Day. The parade may go by the boards (so much the better, say some of the old-timers--who invariably get stuck in the unenviable position of following the mounted police and their prolific mounts); but in the taverns, they will know how to be after celebrating...
...three weeks without relief or resupply, living off the land or out of their rations (including rice and a thick African cornmeal paste called sadza). Whether tracking guerrillas by day or setting up ambush positions at night, the "troopies" communicate by hand signals as they search out foot and boot prints, bowed grass, broken camps or other varieties of "terr spoor," army slang for terrorist tracks. Says Major James Cromar, 43, a reserve commander stationed near the Mozambique border: "We have created a top-rate bush fighter. You can drop an average reserve troopie anywhere in the country at night...
...Francophones. French remained the dominant language on the factory floor, where Gallic Quebeckers held disproportionate numbers of the lowest-paying jobs. English was the tongue of management. Some French Quebeckers felt that they were being treated as "the white niggers of America"?and in their homeland to boot...
...been grievously damaged by Kodak's alleged monopoly power; Berkey lost $24.2 million in the first nine months of 1977. To the astonishment of many legal experts, the jury agreed, finding that Kodak had monopolized the U.S. market for cameras, film and color-print paper and, to boot, had violated the fair-pricing provisions of the Robinson-Patman...
...though, until the final buzzer because the Bruins slipped in a four-point play with 33 seconds showing on the clock. Dwayne Maynard hit the first of a one-and-one situation but missed the second. Pete Moss snared the rebound and sunk the bucket, and was fouled to boot, putting the Bruins within three, 68-65. That was the closest Brown came as Fine dribbled down the clock...