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...soon discovered that most of my classmates were certified low-grade morons, barely able to read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when...
...broad, carefully smoothed patrol road that Israel maintains along the border in order to turn up trespassers showed the boot prints of fedayeen moving onto the Israeli side. Roads were sealed off and army patrols sent out to hunt down the marauders...
...movie is no more than another Hollywood spectacular, all the show and the glitter, the gold and the tinsel, all sunbursts and exploding skies. It tells a good story with lots of yummy mush and death to boot; it's a nice little Hollywood bit. It runs just like an American beauty pageant, stargazing from start to finish. From the first laborious pan over Gatsby's shining bedspread the movie shows off its affects. Come, you are cordially invited, to this miracle of Gatsby masquerading...
Again, however, the NFL proved itself myopic, for once across the fifty, pro punters should be able to boot the ball into the end zone or send it out of bounds near the ten. Undoubtedly, with the new prominence of the punting game, coaches will demand that their punters specialize in angling their kicks out of bounds...
...said to Tom that I thought Basic Training in the Army had been easy; he agreed. I said that I had always wondered what I would have done if I had gone through Marine Boot Camp, with people hitting me, you know. He shrugged. "You would have gone through it like everybody else did," he said...