Word: dicks
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...routine back then. I wanted to be a saint," and "I used to paralegal with this guy in the city and he decided that he couldn't live without some girl he was seeing." The story is called Leviathan, and it concludes with a Me-generation version of Moby Dick, an insipid recollection of a California whale watch."'He was a monster,' Helen said. 'I mean that. He was hostile and huge and he stank...
...players were players and even agents were agents, the Bears had Red Grange and Cash & Carry Pyle. Other names are like trumpets sounding. Bronko Nagurski. Bulldog Turner. George McAfee. Sid Luckman. (If you'll pardon a sentimental addition, Willie Galimore. He even sounded like running.) Later: Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus. People say the Bears are 22 seasons between championships, but 1963 was so momentary and illusory that it seemed more of a flashback than a turnaround, a memory of glory in the midst of a 40-year desperation that, almost no matter what happens in New Orleans this Sunday...
...Leonard, Cobb carried a good deal more than that. "Mick doesn't think he's handicapped," says the pitcher. "That inspired me." Through four operations, three despairing journeys back to square one, Leonard required more than inspiration. Dick Howser, a congenial man but a practical manager, supplied a belief that was better than faith. "You can only sympathize and pull for him so much," Howser says. "Then...
...felt a sense of anger and betrayal. Said Durenberger: "I've had it up to here with Nicaragua and the way the Administration uses the CIA to run its paramilitary operations." He added, "I don't know how we can run a responsible operation down there when every Tom, Dick and Harry is trying to do their own part." Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said U.S. officials were looking the other way when arms deals skirted the edge of the law. Said he: "If Americans are led to go into Nicaragua, either directly...
...would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their Gulags, or some mad regime." DICK DURBIN, U.S. Democratic Senator, on reports of abusive behavior by American interrogators toward prisoners at Guantánamo...