Word: byronism
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...Dartmouth squad that will grace the field today is playing perhaps its finest lacrosse of the year. The squad's top scoring threats come in senior Sandy Bryan (29 goals, 10 assists) and junior Roseanne Byron (24 goals, six assists) Add to that the continuing impressive play of freshmen Allison Barlow and Nina McDowell and the sharp goaltending of Fran O'Donoghue and you've got a squad at the top of its game...
...complete control of the safety aspects. Because the absence of permanent nuclear-waste dumps could lead to reactor shutdowns and disruption of electric service, said the court, the California statute rightfully protects the state's role as an economic arbiter of nuclear power. "The legal reality," wrote Justice Byron White, "remains that Congress has left sufficient authority in the states to allow the development of nuclear power to be slowed or even stopped for economic reasons...
What his father could not show him and Thirsk could never teach him, Watson had to learn himself: how to win. "You learn how to win," he says, "by losing." Byron Nelson helped him survive the lessons. At 24, Watson led the U.S. Open (he prefers National Open, the old name) after three rounds at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., but on Sunday he bogeyed half of the holes and shot 79. His junior-high sweetheart Linda, his wife less than a year then, remembers that as the lowest point. "Wives weren't allowed in the clubhouse," she says...
...Justice Byron R. White, who authored the 5-3 majority opinion, argued that reopening the issue would upset the delicate balance existing in the parched Southwest. He added that since developers and farmers have planned according to these hard-won agreements, "finality" dictates that the case remain closed. This is a strange argument, since finality hasn't been the historical criterion for judging government land agreements with Indian tribes--at least not the finality of rising suns and flowing rivers...
...they lowered the French flag and raised the Nazi one, and a bereft Frenchman looked on," says Wouk. Author-Adapter Herman Wouk "That was dramatic, I thought." On the other hand, Curtis occasionally requested material that had not appeared in the book; for example, in a scene where Newlyweds Byron Henry and Natalie Jastrow encounter some Nazis in a Lisbon restaurant, Curtis wanted to have Byron slug one of the Nazis, instead of simply walking out as he did in the book. Wouk objected that Byron would never do such a thing. Curtis shot it anyway. Says Wouk: "I laughed...