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...could have set Camden Yards inside Yankee Stadium and not even brush a coat of paint. We had power alleys of 457 feet and it was 461 feet to center." --Former Yankee Johnny Blanchard on the Orioles breaking the 1961 Yankees' record of 240 home runs in a season...
When the nurses range his arms, he can feel a light touch from the hand up to the elbow, "as if someone were to brush a hand along the area, a kind of caress. And I can feel something in my shoulder blades...
When counsel for the defense strode to the bar, we slowly became aware that we were inhaling hairspray--picture your stereotypical, sleezoid mob lawyer and you only begin to brush the surface. But his ridiculous appearance was nothing compared to his questions. First came: "How many of you watch 'E.R.?'" Several of us raised our hands proudly and several others followed sheepishly. "Um hmm" came his victorious reply as he made notes--he had caught us! After that, I just tuned out, not really wanting to deal with why the lawyer was asking me if I watched a popular medical...
...cleaning up TV, were lifted from the enemy camp, but most are being promoted through an array of presidential directives that cut the G.O.P. out of the picture. Says presidential historian Michael Beschloss: "Clinton is the first President to use Executive action the way a painter uses a brush: to slowly, carefully fill in parts of his own public image...
...compound, drums echoed from the surrounding hilltops, summoning 300 more combatants from nearby villages. While one group negotiated with Bordeau, another, armed with clubs, machetes and AK-47s, stormed into the church. Tutsi, women and children among them, fled through a rear door and into the surrounding papyrus brush. They were hunted down. Hutu severed a woman's hands and feet. They cut out a man' s heart, leaving a huge gash in his chest. Bordeau was handed a baby, still breathing but drenched in his mother's blood...