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This past summer I spent in Paris and ran every day along the banks of the Seine to the Eiffel Tower and back. I don't remember a day when at least five people didn't stop me to inquire why. 'Quelle une sportive!' they'd exclaim. They all thought I was training for the Olympics...
That short outburst of offensive power prompted Crimson coach George Ford to exclaim after the game, "Although there were times when we looked like we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off, we also at times played some pretty good competitive soccer...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a veteran trader emerged from a day of trying to cope with roller-coaster price changes in the pit where live cattle are traded to exclaim, "I've never experienced anything like this in my life!" In Florida, where the action this year in condominiums has been hotter than the summer sun, mortgage bankers felt a sudden chill. Said Charles Stuzin, head of a Miami savings and loan association: "People are asking, 'What's going to happen tomorrow?' Everything has moved so quickly, no one can make any plans...
...happens to be the U.S., a nation that pioneered in railroading with more vigor and daring than any other in the 19th century. It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!" Most Americans once agreed, and even today travelers lucky enough to wind up on a good train find this way of traveling superior in every way to the fumes and peeves of the throughways and the sardine-can intimacy of the time-rupturing jet planes...
...theologian and the scientist remain true to their own field of activity. The scientist is concerned only with this material universe in the making. The theologian speculates on the force outside the universe and calls it divine. In the face of the infinite, the scientist can only exclaim: "My God, what a bang...