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...would complain about the day, a beautiful crisp fall afternoon, or the course, a three-mile trek through the Hanover golf course, or even Harvard's performance. Darlene Beckford did the predictable, winning the race in a mere 17:00, one second shy of the course record...
Captain Martha Roberts overcame a bout of exhaustion to pull out a third set victory with her big serve and crisp net game at the fourth spot, and the tenacious, gritty play of Debbie Kalish turned the tide for a sixth flight final victory...
...couriers on ostensibly legitimate flights, usually from Palermo to New York's Kennedy Airport, a route that police have dubbed the "Godfather Line." The profits follow the same flight plan back to Sicily. Police at a Palermo airport once seized two suitcases containing $497,000 in crisp U.S. bills before they could be delivered to a mysterious trafficker known to authorities only as a "tall man with red hair speaking with a Milanese accent." On another occasion, police stopped a local gangster as he was attempting to cash two certified checks that were issued by a Brooklyn bank...
When he was 17, University of Alabama Assistant Coach Hank Crisp came to call in a Model A Ford. He offered a way out of the fields with a scholarship. Paul, who was already known as Bear because at age twelve he had lost a wrestling match with a carnival bear, left for college...
...sequence in the concentration camp occurs on a bright, unclouded day, a detail that clashes with a common notion associating Hitler's victims with overcast skies. Fuller's vision is probably truer. He never shies away from color, and enjoys cutting from a crisp shot of blue sky and gold sand to the dull greys and greens of the infantryman's daily existence. Yet the colors never disappear; when there are no more flowers or there is no more blood, Fuller closes in on Lee Marvin's face, a rough-hewn palette of balanched hair, amber skin and watery eyes...