Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore running back Paul Connors, who runs like a cross between a sewing machine ar-1 a machete, burst up the middle for a 17-yd. pickup, his longest of the day, putting Harvard at the Lions' 25-yard line. But the drive finally petered out when on third down and seven yards to go for a TD, Sablock took a pitch out from Brown and tossed to Rich Horner, who caught the ball but landed outside of the endzone stripe. Bosnic then came on to give Harvard a 3-0 first-quarter lead...
...rehabilitate the criminal, and 4) to give him his "just deserts." Today the first three are not persuasive. The prospect of jail does not seem to be a very forbidding deterrent. Society is obviously not safer but more dangerous these days, even though America's prisons and jails burst with a population of 500,000 inmates. Nearly all rehabilitation programs are well-meaning exercises in futility. That leaves reason No. 4, just deserts-punishment, social retribution, the community's retaliation against the criminal for having violated its rules...
...that operate casinos-and many other outfits only remotely or even mistakenly associated with them-have been soaring higher than a Vegas showgirl's kicks. As the Labor Day holiday approached, the speculation became so frantic that for a time it seemed the gambling bubble was about to burst. But last week gaming issues bounced back strongly...
...Sept. 10, CBS, 10 p.m.). Ron Leibman is a brash and at times abrasive character actor who does not have what it takes to be a movie star. The small screen is another matter. TV audiences adore performers who burst into their living rooms like loudmouthed relatives. Though such actors as Peter Falk, Telly Savalas, Robert Blake and Carroll O'Connor never caused a sensation in movies, they all made it quickly to TV superstardom. Thanks to Kaz, Leibman will soon join their ranks...
...third ballot, at 4:30-after a traditional Roman siesta-Luciani burst to the fore, falling just short of a majority. "At that point," Luciani explained later with a smile, "it began to get dangerous for me." Cardinals Willebrands of The Netherlands and Ribeiro of Portugal, sitting on either side of him, leaned toward him. Whispered one: "Courage. If the Lord gives a burden, he also gives the strength to carry it." Whispered the other: "The whole world prays for the new Pope...