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...supreme favor last night and stayed in Philadelphia. It's not so much that they lost the hockey game, 8-2, which made their journey such a waste of time (and Athletic Department money), but the fact that there was simply no way for them to win. The deck, you see, was stacked, and Harvard was holding the four aces...
...when Penn coach Bob Crocker decided to go with freshman Wayne "he's only stopped 14 shots (in parts of three games) all season" Archambault as his starting goalie, he practially conceded that his squad was facing a loaded deck. Which...
...Reich that I was an optimist. He was delighted. His friends are optimists, too. He said this was a time when the consciousness people of the 1960s were out doing their own thing." There are nuances here, and ironies, that Salisbury is overlooking. Not that he has stacked the deck--on the contrary, he is clearly trying to confront the most troublesome parts of his American experience: he seeks out Hunter Thompson, Tom Hayden, black people and bitter taxi drivers, all symbols of something hostile to his earnest mediocre, and it is not equal to the landscape he wants...
...ball-point pen manufacturer from Chicago and was seeking the Democratic nomination for President. Fisher's platform, he said, was simple: abolish the income tax. 'That's nice', was the general reaction and most people immediately got the impression that Fisher was playing with half a deck...
...learn however that the Union Leader did not think Fisher was playing with half a deck; as a result he wound up with 12 per cent of the vote...