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...NOTEBOOK: This is Mabrey's best start ever in her four seasons as head field hockey coach. She attributes part of her team's stellar start to scheduling, however, noting. "We've had most of the easiest games of the season. . ." Mabrey will give her squad today off in an attempt to alleviate the weariness that has plagued it over the last couple of games. Fatigue shouldn't pose as much of a problem once the Ivy schedule starts. Though the games get tougher, the schedule gets saner with the stick women taking on only two opponents per week...
...often thought wrong and behaved worse. But there was another side to him. He said once that although he did not consider himself neurotic, "you become an actor maybe because there are these complexes about you that aren't average or normal, and these aren't the easiest things to live with. You can be easily upset, or short-tempered, or lack patience...
...former Treasury Secretary William Simon, who served from 1974 to 1977, budget resolutions are not worth the paper they are written on. Says he: "These resolutions are simply the first and easiest step of the budget process and have never-I repeat, never-been lived up to." That sounds cynical, but Congress proved the point last week. Even as it was struggling to curb spending, Congress decided to appropriate an additional $3 billion that was intended to help bail out the housing industry. The measure was promptly vetoed by Ronald Reagan...
...pronoun it becomes one when employed to report, say, that somebody has what it takes. So does the preposition in when used to establish, perhaps, that zucchini quiche is in this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart, darling, great human being and the like. All such terms are so full of prejudice and sentiment that S.I. Hayakawa, a semanticist before he became California's U.S. Senator, calls them "snarl-words and purr-words...
...three papal excursions, the Fatima visit was by far the easiest to decide. For some time the Pope has wanted to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima to give thanks for his recovery from the attempted assassination of last May 13-the 64th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin at Fatima...