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...President assiduously searched for some common ground with his critics. One evening he played host to a dozen Democratic Senators, ten of whom face re-election next year. Among them were some of his harshest opponents on the war, but Johnson was eminently conciliatory, assuring them that he bore no grudges and wanted to do all he could to help them win reelection...
Those fouled pitches--Santiago's show of resistance--exasperated Kaat. He bore down. And something popped in his left arm. The game would be ours. One's premonition was justified...
Boston and Cleveland each mustered eight hits, but the Sox stranded eight baserunners. In five different innings, they moved men into scoring position, but each time Tiant bore down to retire the side. Boston's biggest scoring threat came in the fourth when it loaded the bases with...
...reason why the book may bore Albanians is that so much of it is devoted to British industrialism about the time of Dickens. Das Kapital combines pyramids of abstraction with impassioned polemics more typical of the better known work of Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto...
...rival drivers, Petty is known as a "charger," who likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine...