Word: chucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different standard, where glory is measured by commitment to causes larger than oneself. And if everyone around him was saying he had brought honor to his family name, he didn't yet have reason to believe it. "They are treating us like heroes," he told his Naval Academy roommate Chuck Larson when he got back to the States, "and all I did was get shot down and try to survive the best I could. I really want to put that behind me. What's important to me is what I do from now on. I don't want to live...
Junior sprinter Chuck Nwokocha was hit by hard luck at the indoor Heps last year. Coming in with high hopes after finishing second in the 55 as a freshman, Nwokocha pulled his hamstring while crossing the finish line as he won his qualifying heat. He was unable to race in the final...
...bitter, fair Harvard. Though we know in our hearts that Yale dropped the ball--as surely as Chuck Knoblach dropped the ball in the ALCS--do not turn your head in scorn. Instead, thank our Harvard team on a game well played and, with a knowing smile, congratulate Old Eli on an asterisk well deserved...
Brown tried to mount a comeback with wins by sophomore Chuck Dawn in the 100-freestyle and Cowan in the 200-backstroke, but Harvard would have none...
...pulp illustrators. The animation itself is quite limited: when a mouth moves, the rest of the face stays still, stricken. You won't find, say, the gestural verve of a Tex Avery wolf or the behavioral subtlety--simply put, the great acting--of Daffy Duck under the pencil of Chuck Jones. The form's genius is in the stories' breadth and daring. The glory is in the graphic richness of the landscapes: either idyllically gorgeous or scarred with the nuclear apocalypse that still obsesses Japanese artists. As Miyazaki says, "The background in anime isn't an afterthought...