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BROWN at DARTMOUTH--I admit it. I haven't the faintest idea. Jake Crouthamel quit as Dartmouth's coach effective next Saturday, so perhaps the Big Green will have an extra incentive. Perhaps not. Brown 21, Dartmouth 17, and only because my father went to Brown...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: What Can You Do But Sigh? | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

...scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch the natives yank a few more million out of his diamond mines. A real character, that Daddy Warbucks. Too bad he wasn't real...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Perceive the faintest motion retrograde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...above glossary, based on reports from TIME correspondents in the South, was written by a native of Baltimore and edited by a native of Brooklyn, both of whom speak widout de faintest trace of any kinda accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glossary from Cot-tuh Country | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...President has recently taken measures-often draconian-to limit the possibility of disorder after his death or disablement. He has put down even the faintest signs of an outbreak of traditional hostility between Serbs, Croats and other Yugoslav nationalities. In a series of new laws that are expected to go into effect this month, he has sharply restricted religious activity, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, on the ground that it is backing illicit "nationalism." Thousands of government officials have been purged as suspected troublemakers. In an attempt to ensure an orderly succession, Tito has decreed that his powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Cracking Down on Cominformists | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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